Category: Open Source

London WordPress Meetup – 28th July 2011

On Thursday there was the July 2011 London WordPress meetup in the Headshift | Dachis Group offices. I recorded the presentations and have uploaded them to YouTube: Ice-breakers & Introductions Introduction to WordPress by Emily Webber Beginner Theme Development by Keith Devon Looking Under the Hood of WordPress by Chris Adams If you’d like to come… Continue reading London WordPress Meetup – 28th July 2011

GoOOCon2008

From the 10th to 13th April I was in Prague, Czech Republic for GoOOCon, an OpenOffice.org conference hosted by Novell. I done a presentation about the Buildbot system in OpenOffice.org. I didn’t have time to prepare new slides, due to my move to London, so I just recycled my slides from ooocon2007. It was nice… Continue reading GoOOCon2008

OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard

UPDATE:Thanks to Eric Bachard, a fix very similar to this will be appearing in OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 due to be released at the end of October 2008. — With a change in the way that X11 works on Leopard, the X11 version of OpenOffice.org has been giving an error message on startup saying “command timed out”.… Continue reading OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard

OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Mac OS X [Update: now available]

The release of OpenOffice.org 2.4 (X11 version) is a little behind the other platforms due to a lack of resources in the QA process, as many of the resources have been placed on the upcoming aqua version. It will be another few days to week before they are available on the mirrors and the Mac… Continue reading OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Mac OS X [Update: now available]

iLife Browser in Leopard’s open dialogs

In Leopard, if the developer allows certain types of file to be opened, then you get a free iLife browser in the file open dialog. This applies to OpenOffice.org aqua on Leopard too. As the X11 version of OpenOffice.org doesn’t have a native filepicker, this won’t be available there. Find a screenshot below.   Those… Continue reading iLife Browser in Leopard’s open dialogs

Mac OS X OpenOffice.org file naming scheme

Bruce has mentioned that he didn’t understand the files on the good-day server in a comment to a prior blog post. I’ll try to make this as simple as possible for end users to understand using the following example: OOo_SRC680_m237_MacOSXIntel_AQUA_install_en-US.dmg This can be broken down into several smaller chunks _ is used as a separator:… Continue reading Mac OS X OpenOffice.org file naming scheme

OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X Leopard

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was launched by Apple Inc. about one month ago. OpenOffice.org, with the exception of the Java features will work on Leopard. If you require the Java features of OpenOffice.org on Leopard, you require to use milestone m237 or later.  The problem essentially boils down to the way that OpenOffice.org detects Java,… Continue reading OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X Leopard