Terminology question

[bunnyjadwiga]

If I were to tell you that I practice an "Officer Obie" style of documentation, would you know I meant...

[Unknown site tag]"twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."

As in this: http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Ewww/make_www/ssh_ftp_web.html

(And yes, 3 years after I left, Lehigh still has pages linked on the help pages that I wrote. Most of them have not been changed. There's one for using Mozilla Composer. Another for Dreamweaver 2004. 'Nuff said.)

Comments

Yep

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

With 4 part harmony and feelin'....

Hey, when you're good, you're good. Or maybe they're just lazy :-P

[iestynapmwg.livejournal.com]

Huh... the date at the bottom says you wrote it almost exactly 7 years ago. Probably right after getting back from Thanksgiving break. And what song do they play on the radio around Thanksgiving? :)

[lyanna-beth.livejournal.com]

I've always used the "8x10 glossy colour photographs.." {etc} to find out who's in "my generation"! It's not so surprising,I suppose, that very few these days recognise it... [sigh] "Exceptin' Alice!"

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

Then the user walks in with a seein' eye dog, and the tech support begins to cry...

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

*snrk!*

[stringlady.livejournal.com]

Well, of course...

I like that style of instructions. I'd rather get too much than have the person list almost everything, then skip lightly over the one piece that *wasn't* self explanatory - to me, at least. Which I find happens all too often with computer instruction - they w9ill, for instance, tell me how to hit the On button, but then have everything start at a page I can't find...

That's the way I teach people on jobs, too. I always start with a disclaimer (the only way I can be sure I won't skip something) and then tell them everything. My experience is that the ones who complain are the ones who *don't* get the obvious if I don't spell it out, so...

[mysryael.livejournal.com]

I'm part of a group that looks at lots of things in the SCA, we have a group W bench and I sit on it regularly.