At Armadillo Associates, we KNOW the technology because we USE the technologies. Which is why our high tech public relations pieces actually say meaningful things, even when they describe complicated technologies.

• Earth Circus: Not Your Typical High Tech Company...
• Llucky Llama Games
• Leslie Robertson: Sun on the Coast
• Larry Nelson: High Tech Voice on the Coast
• Ian McGee in the Game Capital of the World
• Half Moon Bay's DotComMom Rules RubberNation
• Making Magic at the Intel Computer Clubhouse at Moonridge
• Coastside EPGY Alternative

And, Not So high tech on the coast

• Munch, Munch, Munch: Coastside firms interrupt bugs' lunch
• Wilkinson School Challenges Montara Mountain
• Local Peas
• Wings: Another Kind of School for Another Kind of Child
• Moss Beach Community Park
• Together, Coastside Children Make Beautiful Music

Some Articles We Wrote for VAR Business

• Special Report: 5 Software Megatrends -- Key programming changes that will help you build the next killer application

  VAR Business, July 15, 1997, Issue: 1312
  • Java & write once run anywhere
  • RAD tools help VARs adapt
  • Components Mean Business Advantage
  • Object Relational Databases
  • Client/Server is Dead--Long live Multi-tier

• Java Beyond the Web -- Will the much-heralded language live up to its portability promise?
  VAR Business, March 17, 1997, Issue: 1304

A Series of articles we wrote for Imaging Business Magazine

• Special Issue on Imaging In Banking

Some Articles We Wrote for Solutions Integrator

Other interesting stuff ...

TCP/IP Unleashed

TCP/IP Unleashed, for which we contributed a chapter, was listed in dbaker's Picks. dbaker claims, "All of these books are cooler than nugget's picks." What can we say? Some of our admirers just happen to be nerds. You can find TCP/IP Unleashed at amazon.com.

Book Reviews for Electronic Review of Computer Books

Hypertext

Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook McGraw Hill Publishing 1991

We put The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook together a while back, before most people had heard about the Web. The suggestions we and our contributors made about how to structure information so it can be retrieved effectively electronically are more valid now than ever. Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for some time now. We do have some copies; let us know if you'd like to purchase one (we'll even sign it if you choose). We'll publish an electronic version sometime in the third millennium. Until then, here are some (recent!) citings:

• The Rationale of HyperText by Jerome McGann
• Review: The Navigation Problem Reconsidered
• A Schema-Based Approach to HTML Authoring
• Hypertext in Literature
• Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System by Douglas C. Engelbart (The chapter is re-published in our book.)
• Learning with the WWW: What does the research show?
• Automatic Hypertext Link Typing
• CSCI 7818 Topics in Software Engineering: Open Hypermedia
• Usability and Authoring (Comp Sci 60-334) at the University of Windsor (oops. Link is no more.)
• Professional Writing 401:Web design and Hypertext
  Oldies But Goodies:Not the latest on hypertext, but still worth looking at.
  Emily Berk's HyperText/Hypermedia Handbook is a good introduction to basic concepts. Not a how-to-manual, the book provides an overview that is intentionally abstract and conceptual rather than specific and practical. It is a good book to read once you've done some hypertext authoring. Although the paper medium gets in the way, a number of the case studies give one a sense of real hypertexts.
• METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATION OF HYPERMEDIA COURSEWARE Queensland University of Technology (oops. Link is no more.)
• Research about hypertext navigation and web structure-handling capabilities: Interesting hypertext navigation articles
• Wired Style

Documentation

Lately, we've been writing documentation for a Java framework, real-time Web page generators and other middleware, eCommerce applications, APIs, and a number of object-oriented developer tools written in C++ and Java.

Programming APIs don't upset us.

We don't mind code without comments.

Dump stacks of Java, C++ or C on our desks, let us ask some questions, and we'll write the docs and sample applications.

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