Technical Documentation

• I wrote and illustrated the Ab Initio Active>360 Installation Guide.
• The first sample here, “Performing an Active>360 installation,” describes procedures for preparing an Active>360 installation environment, running the Active>360 installation scripts, and verifying the installation.
• The second sample, “Active>360 installation configuration parameter reference,” provides an overview of Active>360 installation configuration parameters, followed by reference information for each parameter.
• Note that the parameter reference sample here is just the first 16 pages of the chapter — the complete chapter is over 130 pages.

>> View Performing an Active>360 installation (829K PDF)
>> View Active>360 installation configuration parameter reference (561K PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated these Release Notes and Patch Notes for versions 4.2.2 and 4.2.1.4 of the Ab Initio Active>360 product.

>> View Active>360 Release Notes (1MB PDF)
>> View Active>360 Patch Notes (703K PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated the Ab Initio Active>360 API Reference Guide.
• This sample chapter provides conceptual and usage overviews of the Active>360 APIs.

>> View Overview of Active>360 APIs (504K PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated the Ab Initio Customer Interaction Platform CIP Interfaces/API Guide.
• This chapter provides a conceptual overview, detailed reference information, and procedures for defining CIP events.

>> View Implementing CIP event types (1MB PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 High Availability Administration Guide.
• This chapter describes using high-availability features for remote EJB references and JNDI objects over RMI-IIOP in GlassFish Server.

>> View RMI-IIOP Load Balancing and Failover (82K PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated this guide for the GlassFish Web Space server product that was co-branded by Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.

>> View Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 Installation Guide (1.4MB PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated this guide for the GlassFish Web Space Server product from Sun Microsystems.

>> View Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 OpenSSO Add-On Guide (1.6MB PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated this guide for the Database Replication Engine product from PeerDirect.
• The PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise SDK was a development environment for building and testing PeerDirect Replication Networks.

>> View PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise SDK Installation Guide (1.4MB PDF)

• I designed, wrote, and illustrated a pair of API reference documents and a developer-level User’s Guide for the Visual Orchestrate product from Torrent Systems. (Torrent Systems was subsequenlty acquired by Ascential Software and then by IBM.)
• Visual Orchestrate was an environment for developing parallel-processing applications using standard sequential-programming models.
• The first two pages of each API reference document are meant to be printed double-sided to create foldable quick-reference cards.
• When viewed online in PDF format, each quick-reference entry in the the API documents is linked to its corresponding full reference section later in the given document.

>> View Visual Orchestrate User’s Guide (2.5MB PDF)
>> View API Reference by Class (1.3MB PDF)
>> View API Reference by Header (1.4MB PDF)

• I wrote and illustrated this installation guide for the Advantage MySQL distribution from NuSphere Corporation.

>> View NuSphere Advantage Installation Guide (848K PDF)

• This is a sample chapter from my book, Wabi 2: Opening Windows.
• I designed, wrote, and illustrated the book, which was cited as a “Best Book of 1996” by UNIX Review magazine.
• A precursor to the open-source Wine project, Wabi was a Windows application binary interpreter, developed by Sun Microsystems, that enabled users to run Windows applications in UNIX-based X Window environments.
• This sample chapter provides Windows users with a basic introduction to UNIX concepts.

>> View UNIX for Windows Users (740K PDF)

• I designed and wrote the Xerox/Kurzweil PC/KPR User Manual for the Personal Computer/Kurzweil Personal Reader product set.
• The Personal Computer/Kurzweil Personal Reader was a set of products that enabled visually impaired users to read printed books, magazines, and documents.
• The product set was a combination of hardware components, software drivers, screen reader modules, and an end-user application.
• I optimized the design the printed documentation for optical scanning and processing by the screen reader modules.
• I developed the conceptual information and procedures through extensive hands-on testing (even while blindfolded), and through many usability tests with visually impaired users.
• I worked with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to obtain UL approval for all documented tasks and guidelines.
• The samples included here are three chapters from the User Manual.

>> View Introduction to the PC/KPR System (773K PDF)
>> View The PC/KPR Co-Processor Board (2.2MB PDF)
>> View The Model Twenty-Five Scanner (3MB PDF)