Developer experience consultant and technical writer

Frances Elliott

Developer experience consultant, particularly specialized in API onboarding, and technical writer. Former software dev project management. I use this space to reflect personally on my work challenges and accomplishments.

My first REST API documentation

I’ve documented low-level hardware APIs, but never REST APIs – I learned a ton working in Swagger for a Watson service API. Looking back, it breaks down into...

Good news (and bad news for this blog)

The good news is, I got a new job that I really like! I’m now working as an information developer for IBM Watson; the technology is really interesting.

Wisdom from the wellspring: attending a Central Texas DITA Users’ meetup

I’ve been meaning to attend a Central Texas DITA Users’ meetup now for ages, having lurked their message boards for years. And I finally went!

Baby steps toward a Bayes classifer

Actually, the blog title is a misnomer–I started trying to code up a naive Bayes classifer while studying chapter 6 of the Python NLTK book, but I didn’t ge...

Functional programming is hard!

I recently got re-interested* in natural language processing, in conjunction with working on a taxonomy/ontology and reading about applications for taxonom...