Interview with Anne Gentle, author of Docs Like Code and Product Manager at Cisco. 

Interview by Ellis Pratt, Cherryleaf

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Topics covered: 

• What is docs as code?

Links to topics mentioned:

https://www.docslikecode.com/

Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation

Troy Howard Documentarian, Super Genius at Twitter

http://codewerdz.org/ Repository analytics for code and docs

Matt Fleming on Twitter

Docs Like Code GitHub repository

Jekyll

https://docs.openstack.org/pike/

WADL RAML OpenAPI

https://bitbucket.org/

http://docs.metacloud.com/

Liquid scripting

YAML

PrinceXML

Lunr Search Engine 

Solr (Search Engine)

Why we use a ‘docs as code’ approach for technical documentation Jen Lambourne, GDS, GOV.UK

The Definition of Done

Learn Python the Hard Way

AsciiDoc

ReST

GitHub Flavoured Markdown spec

XML Press

REST API

Building Docs Like Code - article

Travis CI 

Jenkins

Circle CI

Webhooks

Bash scripts

An Introduction to Static Site Generators

GitHub Pages