Microsoft publishes its REST API Design Guidelines

Microsoft has published  its REST API Design Guidelines to the API community. According to Gareth Jones, Principal API Architect, who announced its release: “The effort got started from hearing two key points of feedback from customers: It should be easier to get started with Microsoft APIs – Developers wanted to be able to run the curl tool… Read more »

Policies and procedures writing course – 11th October

We’ve scheduled another of our policies and procedures writing course. It will be held on 11th October, in central London (WC2). 25% of the available places have been snapped up already, so book early! Cherryleaf’s policies and procedures course teaches your staff how to write clear and effective policies and procedures, in a straightforward and efficient way. It is… Read more »

New Technical Author Lead vacancies in Cambridge

A client is looking to recruit two new staff: “You’ll be working as part of a team that mentors and coaches the developers and user experience specialists to improve their technical writing skills by providing style guidance and feedback. This role requires you to be the proactive subject matter expert for user interface writing and… Read more »

Cherryleaf launches WriteLessons

WriteLessons, from Cherryleaf, provides you with access to a range of courses in technical communication. You have access to all of the courses contained within WriteLessons, which you can take at your own pace. Currently in beta, we’ll be adding extra courses over time. At launch, it contains: DITA fundamentals Single sourcing and content reuse… Read more »

We live in interesting times

Although our blog is primarily about technical communication, Brexit is such a seismic event that it’s likely to affect technical writing companies and Technical Authors, amongst others, in the upcoming months and years. From a trading perspective, 2016 has, so far, been a very good year for us. However, we are allocating some time to prepare for… Read more »