Podcast 118: What’s up Redocly?

Cherryleaf’s Ginny Critcher and Ellis Pratt discuss using the Redocly platform to create a developer portal and API documentation. More information: Redocly Transcript Audio file  redocly-final.mp3    Transcript  Speaker 2 This is the Cherryleaf podcast.  Speaker 3  Hi everybody, welcome to the Cherryleaf podcast. I’m Ginny Critcher and I will be talking to Ellis Pratt… Read more »

Now we are five

Cherryleaf was founded 5 years ago tomorrow. It seems like only yesterday that we were discussing potential company names, selecting an accountant and getting the legal documents drawn up. From the beginning, we were aware that we needed a business model that would work in a increasing global, internet connected, world. I’ve just started to… Read more »

What makes a good user document?

That’s the question I’ll be asking myself this week. I have been asked to be a “remote judge” for a technical communication competition. In the judging guidelines it states: “Two judging criteria are basic in the competitions: – Judge the work the contributors actually did.– Judge how well the work does what it is intended… Read more »

Death of the Technical Author – Part 2?

The two most popular articles on our Web site were, for a long time, “The Death of the Technical Author” and “The future of Help? Nine trends in user assistance“. Our latest article is probably the closest to a follow up article for these. It’s called “New trends – applying Web 2.0 technologies to technical… Read more »

Have we mis-spelt “organisation” ?

On our Web site it says: “Organisations either tackle change themselves or they use an outside body. We are an extension to your internal resources.” You might be thinking, it’s ‘organization’, surely? This is one of those situations where there are two nations separated by a common language! We’re based in the United Kingdom, where… Read more »