RE: What do you call your examples?

Subject: RE: What do you call your examples?
From: "Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com>
To: "Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:08:32 -0700

At the risk of revealing my terrible dorkiness, I tend to use names and
company names based on science fiction, changed just enough to throw off
the scent. I have example users like Rachel Borg and Roy Sebastian,
though I thought the better of having them work at The Tyrell
Corporation.

For my user manual, I did have to come up with a company name that would
be used throughout. I had created about half the 500 page manual with my
clever name--"Phantom Industries"--when it finally struck me to Google
search for the name.

The first result was for a lingerie fetish site.

It took a few more days, but I eventually changed all the occurrences to
something less uh....suggestive?

Chris

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Subject: What do you call your examples?

I can't be the only person with this problem. I have a tutorial all
planned out in my head, and then sit and stare at a blank page for ten
minutes because I don't know what to name the examples. Example users
are easy enough (Though JohnSmith1 and JohnSmith2 may be pushing it
slightly) but with company names I'm always worried in case I use the
name of a /real/ company.



What does everyone else do?

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony




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