Past API doc workshops and presentations
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For a list of upcoming presentations and past presentations all topics, see Presentations.
Previous API doc workshops and presentations
The following are previous API presentations or workshops I’ve given. Some have recordings. For a full list of past presentations (including both API and other topics), see the presentations page on my blog.
- November 19, 2019. API Documentation Workshop. Full-day. San Francisco, California.
- August 30, 2019. API Documentation Workshop. Full-day. Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
- May 5, 2019. "API Documentation workshop." Preconference full-day workshop. STC Summit. Denver, Colorado.
- April 6, 2019. API Documentation workshop." Full-day workshop. STC Carolina chapter. Raleigh, North Carolina. Recording available here.
- March 29, 2019. API Documentation workshop for Linode software. Full-day workshop online.
- January 18, 2018. Publishing tools for API documentation. WTD SF chapter, South Bay.
- November 20, 2018. Intro to API Documentation. STC Silicon Valley chapter.
- January 9, 2017. Harnessing the Chi of Swagger in Your API Docs [TC Dojo] TC Dojo.
- March 19, 2016. Documenting REST APIs workshop. STC Sacramento chapter. Rocklin Public Library, Sacramento, CA.
- February 18, 2016. Best practices for REST API documentation. STC webinar. Online.
- May 7, 2015. Survival Strategies for API Documentation. East Bay STC Chapter. Dublin, California.
- March 12-13, 2015. API Documentation workshop. tcworld India, Bangalore.
- February 2, 2015. Survival Strategies for API documentation. Southern Ontario STC chapter. webinar.
- January 24, 2015. API Documentation Workshop. TC Camp. Santa Clara, California.
- Oct 30, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 3: Platform API documentation
- Oct 13, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 2: Publishing REST API documentation
- Oct 6, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 1: Documenting REST APIs
- Sept 30, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 3: Platform API documentation
- Sept 16, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 2: Publishing REST API documentation
- Sept 2, 2015. API documentation workshop for Expert Support group, Part 1: Documenting REST APIs
- August 11, 2015. API/Software Authoring Environments. North Bay Communicators Network. Roundtable discussion.
- Oct 15, 2014. Publishing strategies for API documentation. San Francisco STC chapter.