Head over to the OpenOffice.org Mac Porting web site for the latest development build. This is the most stable build of OpenOffice.org running natively on Mac OS X that I have seen. I haven’t yet had a crash with my basic usage. Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 is required. The improvements include: Printing now… Continue reading New OpenOffice.org Aqua Development Release
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Sorting Tables in a MediaWiki
I’ve noticed that a number of tables in the Wikipedia are sortable. Further research found that it is implemented through client side javascript, when a table has the class=”sortable”. It is available in MediaWiki 1.9 or later. See the MediaWiki help on sortable tables. I have found adding the sorting to the OpenOffice.org Mac OS… Continue reading Sorting Tables in a MediaWiki
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
Edinburgh Leopard Tech Talk
Today I went along to the Leopard Tech Talk in Edinburgh at the posh Caledonian Hilton Hotel. It was a very interesting event, and might just convince me to start programming in Cocoa and Objective-C 2.0. Objective-C 2.0 is far more like Java when it comes to memory management. This is where I tend to struggle… Continue reading Edinburgh Leopard Tech Talk
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
The past 2 months
It has been a couple of months now since I’ve properly written a blog post. So here is a longish catchup post. I have been busy doing agency work mostly in staff restaurants as a Kitchen Porter. I’ve even bumped into the Lead of the Marketing Project in our home town, rather than having to… Continue reading The past 2 months
ooocon2007: Presentations
All the presentation slides for this years conference that have been submitted to ooocon2007@openoffice.org have been made available on the conference web pages. There is still about 12 presentations where the slides still have not been submitted for. Frank Peters has made a list of the missing presentations. Can all presenters please send them to… Continue reading ooocon2007: Presentations
OOOCON2007 Presentations
If any presenters do not currently have their presentation available on the programme pages, then please send your presentation to ooocon2007@openoffice.org. We would like to have both an OpenDocument Impress presentation and a PDF generated from it. If you would like to update your presentation, please send it to the above address, also stating that… Continue reading OOOCON2007 Presentations
Who said Barcelona was going to be cold?
In fact it is rather roasting compared to Edinburgh. The direct flight with ClickAir was pretty smooth, except for a short time when coming in to land at Barcelona, due to going through a cloud. Seems that the rumours were true about the iPhone coming to the UK, as reported by Macworld UK. However at… Continue reading Who said Barcelona was going to be cold?