Writing good documentation is assisted by writing good code in the first place. The better the code, the less work it should take to document it. User martianE points out the different role ...

Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But your documentation should be great for non-developers too. When software moved online, so did the documentation. Today, hosted ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Implicit in the relationship between a writer and a reader is the request for attention. Through ...

Agile development has been very effective at reducing the need for extensive, ponderous documentation. However, this methodology has not done away with the need for Agile project documentation ...

In March 2010, Foursquare was riding high, one of the coolest social startups of the day, with gobs of fresh venture capital and a million people using its mobile app to check in. And then, on March ...

One of the essential draws to open-source software should be superior product documentation. Well-written user guidelines are a key strategy that software developers should use to increase an ...