One day, a similarly expansive body of work may exist for writing software—and Kirschenbaum will be one of its first builders. I spoke to him last month about his effort.

Client write-up remains a business staple for many accounting firms, so choosing the proper write-up software is critical. Even businesses’ expanding use of accounting software for bookkeeping has not ...

We list the best free writing apps and software, to make it simple and easy to better manage writing tasks. My team and I have tested a range of the best free word processors and writing apps for ...

As I write in Scrivener, I can pull quotes and data from Evernote and not worry about formatting the citations I’ll eventually retrieve from Endnote. Being flexible about my writing software means ...

The best solutions can squeeze more out of a popular service Some accountants view write-up as grunt work - something akin to bookkeeping, that they have to do to keep particular clients. Others are ...

Just as how-to-write books usually (with the exception of Stephen King's excellent On Writing) inspire cynicism in many writers, so do their software equivalents -- you know, writing software.

Any good software patent application will need to describe the overall computer architecture of the system within which the software will exist. You also need to prepare a series of flow charts ...

That said, you don't have to use Final Draft if you don't want to. Fade In is cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) script writing software with features that rival Final Draft for just $50.

Despite our similar backgrounds, I respectfully disagree with most of his assertions in “How I write software” (June 2010, p.9). He “jump [s] right into the code”, starting by writing the null program ...