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Early in my career I got a gig at a large organization that touches every business and household in the US pretty much every day (much to the chagrin of Libertarians). They had hired me as a sysadmin to develop turnkey installs for the systems that would eventually be fielded out to hundreds of offices around the country that would be handled by on-site techs. I had time on my hands after that as we started rollout to a handful of places at a time as the gear became available to ship.
So I learned the app that the gear was meant for. I did that by writing the user guide since DTP was still very much an infant thing back in those days. I had a domain expert sitting in the same cube farm who didn't know DTP so we wrote it together. Every dev should write the user guide first, and then write the app second. Imagine doing that in the days before Google existed... or AltaVista (look it up), or even the Interwebs.
So I learned the app that the gear was meant for. I did that by writing the user guide since DTP was still very much an infant thing back in those days. I had a domain expert sitting in the same cube farm who didn't know DTP so we wrote it together. Every dev should write the user guide first, and then write the app second. Imagine doing that in the days before Google existed... or AltaVista (look it up), or even the Interwebs.
Thank you for the above info. I'm sure there are a lot of members out there who will be able to take advantage of this. This is why I marvel at you guys. I can't comprehend anything you are saying. You might as well be writing in Plutonese, out of this world. My eyeballs roll and I start to perspire and I just go get a drink, lol.