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Confluence wiki – first impressions
As a technical writer, I love learning new tools. In this case, I’m implementing a pilot project using a Confluence wiki. Until now, all our technical documents have been Word and CHM help files. And...
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Increase your productivity with these applications
When you work as a contract technical writer, you can maximize your productivity by choosing the tools that work best for you. These tools can vary widely depending on who your clients are and the type...
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Integrating Confluence and JIRA
Since our team is moving to JIRA for tracking bugs and enhancements, and we’re creating a new customer portal, possibly using Confluence, I’ve been thinking about ways to make our process for release...
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Integrating Confluence and JIRA (part 2)
Last time, I left off at the point of displaying JIRA issues on a Confluence page. I’d found a way to insert single issues. But I want to display a list of all the issues going into the release. The...
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Copying a Space from one Confluence wiki instance to another
At the moment I have a Confluence wiki installed on my desktop. Next we want to install Confluence on a server to test the integration of the wiki with our Umbraco website and LDAP security. So that we...
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Linking from a JIRA issue to a Confluence page
I received a question this month, asking how to link from JIRA to a Confluence page. I’ve been thinking about doing exactly this, so that we can keep Specification documents in Confluence, and then...
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Blogging with Confluence
A new requirement for our customer portal is to add blogging. Our marketing team have been using Typepad, so they want a platform that is just as easy to use. But we also need a tool that can integrate...
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Making PDFs in Confluence
In the mailbag this week, a reader asked if there’s a way to convert a Confluence wiki into a PDF. When we get our Confluence wiki off the ground, this will be an absolute necessity for our team too...
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Coloring code in Flare with Prettify
Recently I worked on some API documentation with dozens of examples of code snippets. Anyone who reads code will tell you that color coding (syntax highlighting) makes code much easier to read. Since I...
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