Jekyll versus DITA 1.0 Check out Ed Marsh's podcast, and also My New series: Jekyll versus DITA 1.1 Authoring with Markdown in Jekyll versus Authoring with DITA in OxygenXML 1.2 Variables and conditional processing in Jekyll versus DITA 1.3 Creating re-usable chunks (conref) in Jekyll versus DITA 1.4 Building a table of contents with DITA versus Jekyll 1.5 Reviewing content in DITA versus Jekyll 1.6 Producing PDFs in DITA versus Jekyll 1.7 Creating links in DITA versus Jekyll 1.8 Final analysis between DITA and Jekyll 1.9 → Recording and slides from "Jekyll vs. DITA: Bridging the Gap Between Tech Comm and the Web" presentation Yesterday I gave a presentation to STC Berkeley about ways to bridge the gap between tech comm tools and web development tools. After talking about innovation patterns, I focused on static site generators, specifically Jekyll. I also explained how DITA compares to Jekyll. Slides Here are the slides: Audio recording Here's the MP3 audio file: Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) (Sorry, my attempts to record the screen using Camtasia failed -- Camtasia crashed. I think my MacBook Pro Retina display didn't jive with the old projector I was hooked into.) Links to more information Note that this presentation is similar to the keynote I gave at tcworld India. Personally, I felt the India presentation went better. If I were giving this presentation again, I would probably drop the DITA comparison, shorten the exploration of innovation, and just show static site generators in depth. Also see the Jekyll Versus DITA series for more detail about the tool comparisons.