You will probably say that I'm about to write some stupid thing about 3D effects and visually impaired persons. You are wrong: Beryl can bring really useful features to the linux desktop for these persons. Many of them need reversed colors and/or a magnifier on their screen. Even if …
Yesterday afternoon we were walking in the center of Lyon. Hopefully we had the digital camera to take some shots of the beautiful colors of Lyon when the sun starts lowering in the sky. I created a panorama using Hugin from 11 pictures: just see why Lyon is a beautiful …
Yesterday, with some friends, we went discovering new games. We played in an association who owns a lot of author games. One of the most well known is the Settlers of Catan which inspired a free computer game: pioneers. Yesterday evening we played two interesting games: Carcassonne and La Traversée …
By reading the OpenOffice.org mailing lists this morning, I found out two useful Java libraries handling OpenDocument. These needs to be investigated, but they seem to be used by big open source products.
The topic on the mailing list was to see whether the ODF Toolkit could …
Last week, I had to go for some days in Rennes. To book a hotel there, I used the Mappy services to locate hotels near the town center. The problem is that when Mappy can't find an address in a city, it locates it near the town hall. Thus I …
During two days, my fiancee and I have decided to make a break in a our hight-speed rhythm of life. This break was the occasion for us to think about our coming wedding. More precisely to think about the christian wedding and the reasons who leads us to get married …
Yesterday evening, I tried to find a way to register several
UNO services implementations using regcomp. The problem is that the
implementations have all been created using the uno-skeletonmaker tool
and contained each their own static registration methods. However there
was nothing to register all the services implementations in the …
This afternoon, I found out by pure chance the blog of an old friend. My reading stopped on two really interesting articles on HDR photos and centering photos correctly.
Thus I tried to find more informations on HDR photos and how to create them. This has lead me to an …
Now OOEclipseIntegration bugs will have to be filed on IZ, Component: sdk, Subcomponent: eclipse-integration. This new step in the project development will help to split the work between different developers (when there will be more) and to keep a track of the bugs. IZ has probably a better memory of …
Wednesday evening, I presented the Eclipse Integration plugin for OpenOffice.org at Solution Linux in Paris. The room wasn't full, but I had some interesting contacts. For those who are interested in the slides, you can download them from here even if you may have to translate them from french …