Caroline Rose: Portfolio
 

This portfolio presents a small sample of documents and articles that Caroline has written or edited for the indicated companies. You can access some of the content from here; other content is confidential or is not available online.

Note: Hyperlinks in some sample documents have been removed or may no longer be up to date.

Documentation for developers

  1. ❖      Adobe: PDF Reference, Third Edition (Adobe PDF Reference Archives and Addison-Wesley, 2001) and PostScript Language Reference, Third Edition (Adobe Developer Center and Addison-Wesley, 1999) (coauthor and coeditor)

  2. ❖      Apple: Discovering Carbon: A Procedural Approach to Developing Mac OS X Applications (coauthor); Inside Macintosh, Volumes I through III (Addison-Wesley, 1985) (principal author and editor)

  3. ❖      NeXT:  NeXT System Reference Manual (coauthor and editor)

  4. ❖      Marimba:  Castanet Glossary (PDF), describing terms related to their application and content distribution and maintenance product (author)

  5. ❖      AMD:  Evaluation of their Software Optimization Guide for the AMD Hammer Processor (PDF) (author)

  6. ❖      Collaxa:  Manipulating XML Documents in BPEL (author)

  7. ❖      Nokia:  Designing Java Applications for Series 60 (editor)

System administration guides

  1. ❖      PSS Systems:  Atlas Administrator’s Guide, for their document retention system (editor)

  2. ❖      SkyPilot Networks:  SkyPilot Network Administration, for their wireless broadband solution (editor)

  3. ❖      BigFix:  BES System Administrator’s Guide, for their security and systems management product (editor)

Articles for developers

  1. ❖      Netscape:  “Directories and LDAP: Universal Access to Directory Information,” published online by Netscape and later in Netscape DevEdge Web Developer’s Library (IDG Books Worldwide, 1999) (author)

  2. ❖      Rational Software:  “Net Explorer and O Store,” a case study, and “Quality on the Web: Who Cares?”, an editorial (author); “Content Management Using the Rational Unified Process, Part 1: Overview” (PDFs before, during, and after editing) and “Applying the Rational Unified Process: A Web Service Sample” (PDFs before, during, and after editing) (editor)

  3. ❖      Apple:  develop, The Apple Technical Journal, Issues 6 through 29 (editor in chief)

User documentation

  1. ❖      HotPaw Productions:  Instructions for iAutoharp, an iPhone application (author)

  2. ❖      TidBITS:  Ebooks about Microsoft Word, GarageBand, Mac passwords, buying a Mac, maintaining a Mac, running Windows on a Mac, and switching to a Mac from Windows (editor)

  3. ❖      Bare Bones Software:  BBEdit 7.0 User Manual (editor)

  4. ❖      NeXT:  Getting Started, NeXT User’s Reference, and NeXT Applications (coauthor and editor); WriteNow For Macintosh (author of reference chapters and editor)

Editorial style guides

  1. ❖      Nokia:  Forum Nokia Style Guide (PDF) (author)

  2. ❖      Marimba:  Marimba Documentation Department Style Guide (PDF) (author)

  3. ❖      Rational Software:  Rational Developer Network Content Style Guide (author)