The Fastware Project

When I started this blog, my short-term goal was to have a place to think out loud about the uncertainty I felt as an author of technical ma...

My presentation isn't until tomorrow, but I somehow managed to finish the materials for it today.  If you're interested in what I ha...

When programmers think about optimizing things, they often think about optimizing code .  After all, code is where they live.  It's what...

After a year-long digression to work on C++0x, I'm finally able to get back to Fastware! , and on May 22 (a week from Saturday), I expec...

In February, I said that I'd been spending a lot of time on a new publishing project and that I'd say more here when there was more ...

Almost exactly one year ago, I uploaded an Excel spreadsheet summarizing sources of information I'd consulted as research for what I sti...

For better or for worse, my work on Fastware! must sometimes give way to other duties I have, and one of the obligations I signed up for at...

The talk I gave at the Tools of Change in Publishing Conference in February is now available online. It runs about 46 minutes. If you...

The TOC Blog pointed me to Jakob Nielsen's recent post, " Kindle Content Design ." Nielsen raises a number of interesting is...

I've been reviewing my FrameMaker source files for Fastware! , looking out for single-sourcing no-nos. High on the list is the use of p...