Current Projects

Eclipse information centers

• December 14, 2007: IBM Content Management Version 8.4 Information Center
• December 5, 2005: IBM DB2 Content Manager Standard Version 8.3 Information Center
• March 25, 2005: IBM Content Management Version 8.3 Information Center. Led the Eclipse information center project for all of Content Management. Much bigger scope than anything I've ever done in the past. Required me to strategize new ways to install, configure, automate, test (in China, no less), translate, and debug.
• January 26, 2004: IBM DB2 OnDemand Version 7.1 Information Center. Led the team that adopted the Eclipse help system for the IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand documentation. It helps customers to peruse and search topics across various IBM product libraries.

Taming the paper tiger

July 22, 2004: Wrote the "OnDemand Information Center: A closer look" section in this IBM developerWorks article.

blog.flup.org support

Wrote the online help for blog.flup.org.

• main page help
• blog help
• chat room help

Episode Guide Work

My episode synopses started as a leisurely hobby but later evolved into a serious endeavor. For me, they expressed an aspect to writing that technical publications tend to lack: action verbs. If you think about it, verbs energize the English language. We often neglect good action verbs in favor of dead nouns and unimaginative "is" verbs. In my opinion, TV drama offers the best variety of action verbs.

Steve's SmackDown Stables

Playstation's "WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role" game features the most amusing creative tool that I've encountered to date: Creating a Superstar. It inspired me to draw myself, my friends, and co-workers. Among other details, I could exaggerate our mannerisms, pick fighting moves for us, design our taunts, and select our entrance music. I even starred everyone in Royal Rumbles that I personally choreographed and videotaped.

Music Video Survey Results

Every few months, I record a variety of music videos and survey my friends on how they like them. Then, using an Excel spreadsheet, I tabulate which videos that they judged as the the best and worst. The results get posted as an HTML "billboard" chart.

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