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Test coverage for OOo Extensions

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 …

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Some C/C++ discoveries

As you might know, I'm used to code in Java in Eclipse. As many other modern IDE users, I'm not really used to code using a text editor. Yesterday evening, in my hotel room, I was idling among the OpenOffice.org sources and I was really impressed by what can …

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OOo integration tips (2)

Here is a new instance of the OpenOffice.org Eclipse integration tips. I hope you will enjoy it.

Tip #3: Creating a valid OXT extension

The OpenOffice.org Eclipse integration is starting to be out-dated and doesn't support the OXT extensions by default. This tip explains how to create an …

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A better COOoder is here

This new version of the syntax highlighting extension for OpenOffice.org brings the announced features. Many thanks for those who brought their improvement ideas.

  • The language definition files are written on one line: 40% of time is thus gained during the definition file reading.
  • The regular expressions used to find …
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OOo integration tips

Even if I'm not maintaining it for the moment, I'm still using the Eclipse integration of OpenOffice.org and would be glad to share some tips with you. Here are the two first tips. Stay tuned because there may be others...

Tip #1

I recently decided to switch back to …

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GeSHi for OpenOffice.org

As I have promised it in a later post, here is a first version of the OpenOffice.org extension for syntax highlighting. There are still some things to improve like:

  • reading the languages files: this could certainly be optimized to avoid parsing the language file at each parsing time.
  • generating …
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Alfresco and groups of admins

I had to add groups of users as administrators to the Alfresco configuration. As this is a common requested feature, I will explain how I did it. This will also be a good example of how to tweak Alfresco internal classes by overriding its Spring beans. Before reading further, you …

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Howto create a new Alfresco module

This post aims at explaining how to set up Eclipse to build a new Alfresco module easily. Before continuing to read, be sure to have downloaded Alfresco and its Software Development Kit (SDK). Of course the following will assume that you have an installed Eclipse with the J2EE plugins. This …

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OOo for coders (2)

Some times ago I have written a post about an OpenOffice.org extension to present code snippets in OOo with syntax highlighting. You may thing that this project is forgotten... but I'm writing here to tell the contrary: I'm coding it when I have some time between work and social …

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Some stats

The Wordpress statistic plugin provides me some interesting informations on what you are doing on my blog. As these may be of interest for you too, here are some comments on them.

Firs of all, the top visiting day on this blog as been set a few days ago: the …

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