Are you using variables in your technical documents? If not, you might be missing out. They save a lot of time and help keep the documents accurate, for example, if you need to change a product name across the entire doc set. If those puppies were hard-coded, you’re in trouble. We use Madcap Flare. The […]
Right now, the average aalary of Technical Writing Job in the USD (May 13, 2015) is… low end 45k middle earners 90k high end 135k Here’s a fuller breakdown: Engineering Technical Writer $54,000 IT Report Writer $69,000 IT Technical Writer $74,000 Senior Proposal Writer $80,000 Technical Proposal Writer $69,000 Technical Writer $123,000 Technical […]
If you have good writing skills, enjoy technology, and like to help others understand how things work, then a career as a technical writer might suit you. 1.0 Technical writer work/life balance Technical writing has been very good to me. It’s allowed me to work in China, London, San Francisco, and Amsterdam. Most of the […]
How much technical writing work have you got from LinkedIn? Ever? Let’s look at how to get more work, especially contract work, from LinkedIn. If you’re doing some of the following, let’s stop and think a minute. Are you in more than ten groups? Do you post to your own profile only but not to […]
KB from London heard that I use Twitter to find work. Like many of us, she thought Twitter was a waste of time and ignored it. Maybe we can change her mind. How I use Twitter to find technical writing work Here’s how I use it. Create a twitter account for your business. Add a […]
In C#, statements express the actions that a program takes. Common actions include Declaring variables Assigning values Calling methods Looping through collections Branching to another block of code The order in which statements are executed in a program is called the flow of control or flow of execution. This may vary every time that a […]
The “Hello, World” program is traditionally used to introduce a programming language. Here it is in C#: using System; class Hello { static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World”); } } What’s the file extension? C# source files typically have the file extension .cs. How to compile? You can compile the program with the Microsoft C# […]