You might already have to work with huge XML files. Using regexp searches aren't really handy as you easily get lost in the XML file. I am currently working with a really enormous XML file. I have then written some small Perl and Vim script to search in XML files …
Thanks to Andrew Ziem in his post A Better Office .docx converter, I have discovered a place needing many improvements in OOo. I started to fix the border problem exposed in Andrew's document, but then found that the table styles weren't imported. This problem is now fixed in go-oo trunk …
Since I have only 5 fingers on each hand, I prefer using Vim to develop in C++ for OpenOffice.org. I have found some tricks that help me working that I would like to share in this post. I am sorry for those coding on windows, but I don't know …
As you may have read it I have been working for some time on a new system to bootstrap OpenOffice.org from the Eclipse integration. I will take this occasion to explain how to bootstrap OOo in a Java application.
You may have already encountered that problem, because …
For some time, I have been working on one of your comments on the Eclipse integration: I am making it work with OpenOffice.org 3.0 and its SDK. In the same time, I have found some problems with the UNO types browser. I have started to fix them and …
December will be the start of a new way of life for me and my wife.
This week I have travelled to Quebec for my work. I had time to discover Québec city during the week-ends and was full of the French-Canadian culture. If I have spent such a good time there, it thanks to my clients and hosts: InfoGlobe (fr). I would like to thank …
I have explained in one of my last posts how to measure the coverage of the test of a Java OpenOffice.org extension. These white-box tests are generally not enough to ensure the quality of a development. XUnit tests are often used by developers to automate the tests. What about …
You may have already heard of codeswarm. This small project, helps you to create a video from the commits logs of project. Some open source projects have their codeswarm, but not OpenOffice.org. At the beginning I wanted to have a codeswarm of both OOo and ooo-build, but the OOo …
Testing code is always one the most important part in the development process. Testing OpenOffice.org extensions cannot be often automated, but it would be interesting to know whether the tests are enough or not. Having some code coverage informations for the tests can be really useful.
This post explains …