Events

Developer Week 2017, Nürnberg

_I am back in beautiful Nürnberg and it's developer week to give another installment of my documentation for developers talk_. How many times have you come across an awesome looking library or tool that you're keen to work with in your own project but can't even begin to understand how to use it? Programmers are great at creating amazing and cutting-edge code, but not always so good and explaining themselves, and I want to help. In this presentation I want to draw upon my experience in writing tutorials and technical documentation to help you write clear, concise and usable documentation for your own projects. We will cover topics such as: - Why write documentation? - Explaining your point and motivation - Creating context and meaning - Writing clear copy - Creating meaningful examples and tutorials - Documentation systems and formats - Making documentation part of build processes - Testing Docs - Versioning of Docs and maintaining consistency

Developer Week Community Night 2017, Nürnberg

Whilst at Developer Week in Nürnberg I'll be at their "Ask the Experts" community night, helping you understand how to explain complex topics.

Devoxx Poland

Documentation is essential for potential users to understand your awesome coding efforts. But I know that you'd rather get back to coding as soon as possible, so how about automating as much of your documentation as possible? In this presentation I will show you how to automate some of the repetitive tasks involved in documentation and make your colleagues jealous.

Pioneers Festival 2017

If you're at the Pioneers festival in wonderful Vienna, I want to hear from you! Let's share a coffee and a slice of strudel and tell me what you're working on.

The Next Web 2017

If you're at the Next Web festival in cheerful Amsterdam, I want to hear from you! Let's share a coffee and a slice of cake and tell me what you're working on.

I T.A.K.E. Unconference

Explain Yourself! Documentation for Better Code (Chris Ward) - How many times have you come across an awesome looking library or tool that you're keen to work with in your own project but can't even begin to understand how to use it? Programmers are great at creating amazing and cutting-edge code, but not always so good and explaining themselves, and I want to help. In this presentation I want to draw upon my experience in writing tutorials and technical documentation to help you write clear, concise and usable documentation for your own projects. We will cover topics such as: - Why write documentation? - Explaining your point and motivation - Creating context and meaning - Writing clear copy - Creating meaningful examples and tutorials - Documentation systems and formats - Making documentation part of build processes - Testing Docs - Versioning of Docs

UNIT

Cate will be speaking about how technology is increasingly impinging on every corner of our lives, including our sex lives.

Quo Vadis

Games have been with us for centuries, from those that emulate battles like Chess and Risk, to the intricate mysteries of Go. In the past decades the world of boardgames has growing in popularity, breaking into the mainstream with games like Catan. However the industry is generally staunchly traditional in the way it produces and markets it's ideas. Until recently. In this presentation I will look at how digital versions of games, tabletop simulators, app augmented games and kickstarter have changed the world of cardboard and look to the future to see where this may lead.

Codemotion Tel Aviv

Atom is the hackable text editor begun by GitHub, it was also the first application to use the Electron framework for creating native applications in JavaScript. Thanks to it's underpinnings, customising the editor and creating your own packages to extend functionality is relatively simple. In this presentation I will show how to change and extend Atom with configuration, themes and creating your own package with the Atom API, showing practical examples with the packages I have created.

CeBIT

I'll be attending Europe's pre-eminent event for digital business. I'll be keen to meet interesting products, projects and people.

PyCon Slovakia

Explain Yourself! Documentation for Better Code (Chris Ward) - How many times have you come across an awesome looking library or tool that you're keen to work with in your own project but can't even begin to understand how to use it? Programmers are great at creating amazing and cutting-edge code, but not always so good and explaining themselves, and I want to help. In this presentation I want to draw upon my experience in writing tutorials and technical documentation to help you write clear, concise and usable documentation for your own projects. We will cover topics such as: - Why write documentation? - Explaining your point and motivation - Creating context and meaning - Writing clear copy - Creating meaningful examples and tutorials - Documentation systems and formats - Making documentation part of build processes - Testing Docs - Versioning of Docs

Fosdem 2017

I'm back at the infamous FOSDEM, this time to talk about making your documentation polished by automating spelling, grammar, testing, screenshots and so much more.

Fosdem 2017

I'm back at the infamous FOSDEM, this time to talk about how the Electron framework may or may not help our cross-platform dreams.

Agile the Docs

A whole day meetup, organised in collaboration with GDS, to explore the tools, processes and methodologies that teams use to write documentation in an agile environment.

Web Summit

I'll be attending Europe's pre-eminent event for Startups. I'll be keen to meet interesting products, projects and people.

Software Freedom Kosovo

In this presentation I'll examine how various diverse sources have taught me how to write better technical documentation.

Spiel 2016

I will be play testing and promoting my board game [Chip Shop](https://chipshopgame.com) at the infamous [Spiel messe in Essen](https://www.merz-verlag-en.com/). Drop by stall A109 in hall 4 and say hello!

LinuxCon Europe

Explain Yourself! Documentation for Better Code (Chris Ward) - How many times have you come across an awesome looking library or tool that you're keen to work with in your own project but can't even begin to understand how to use it? Programmers are great at creating amazing and cutting-edge code, but not always so good and explaining themselves, and I want to help. In this presentation I want to draw upon my experience in writing tutorials and technical documentation to help you write clear, concise and usable documentation for your own projects. We will cover topics such as: - Why write documentation? - Explaining your point and motivation - Creating context and meaning - writing clear copy - Creating meaningful examples and tutorials - Documentation systems and formats - Making documentation part of build processes - Testing Docs - Versioning of Docs

Voxxed Days Belgrade

Whilst open sourcing a language is nothing new, Apple's unprecedented step has caused massive excitement and activity for this new language, with a flurry of development and contributions. In this presentation I would like to explore the current potential of Swift and what's going to be possible in the future. I will cover: - What can be accomplished with 'open' Swift - What's missing from 'open' Swift - Back end Swift and MVC - Swift on non-Mac desktops - Swift on non-iOS mobile devices - Extending Swift - What's next?

Write The Docs EU

Outside of my technical writing work for software projects I have been creating a board game. A board game also requires mechanics to function and players to clearly understand how these mechanics work to use and appreciate fully. As part of my research for writing game manuals I looked at manuals for furniture, electronics, and cars to see how they explain to users how to setup and use their products. In this presentation I will look at how the technical writing skills of different industries can learn from each other. This will include: - Game Manuals and tutorials - Assembly instructions (e.g. those wonderful Ikea inserts) - Service Manuals for electronics And as part of looking at these case studies, the presentation will cover: - Iconography vs Text - The limitations of updating print manuals - Reducing language and cultural colloquialisms - Identifying what needs to be said and what doesn't And by the end of the presentation I hope that everyone will have learnt a lot from each other and realize that we're all trying to achieve the same thing(s).

Ignite Berlin

Games have been with us for centuries, from those that emulate battles like Chess and Risk, to the intricate mysteries of Go. In the past decades the world of boardgames has growing in popularity, breaking into the mainstream with games like Catan. However the industry is generally staunchly traditional in the way it produces and markets it's ideas. Until recently. In this presentation I will look at how digital versions of games, tabletop simulators, app augmented games and kickstarter have changed the world of cardboard and look to the future to see where this may lead.

DroidCon Greece

The battle between Google and Oracle may finally be over, but let's face it, the relationship between Android developers and Java is still a rocky one. In this presentation I would like to look at the potential for Android development with a series of alternatives to Java, especially Go, Dart, Kotlin and Swift. I will introduce the languages, analyze their potential and what is achievable with them, seeing if any of them are viable alternatives to the Java behemoth.

Vienna.JS

Electron is a fantastic tool for creating cross-platform apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that look and feel _relatively_ native to the hosted Platform. In this presentation I'll give a quick overview of what's possible.

Vienna.html

An insight look on how to build a print-at-home Chip Shop (offline) board game with printed paper cards (72 products, 76 events and 36 personalities) that let you run a computer company in the 80's to build your silicon empire. Learn how to turn cards in markdown files as used on the game website into high-quality printable PDFs for a premium pre-boxed or print-yourself card deck version and much more.

Oscal 16

In this presentation I'll be dragging LaTeX out of the past kicking and screaming and be showing that it's actually kinda cool.