Cédric Bosdonnat A geek's perspective

Recently, I wanted to build OOo with some features like canvas support. As I had some errors when building the canvas module, ericb2 told me that I should get the canvas05 CWSCWS: Child Work Space and build OpenOffice.org with it. As I didn't know how to do it …

As many of the readers may wonder what is the uno-skeletonmaker, I will start with a short explanation of its use. The uno-skeletonmaker is a command line tool provided in the OpenOffice.org SDK which generates a skeleton of code for the implementation of an UNO IDL service specification. This …

As I had problems to use Zimbra collaborative messaging correctly without using the web client interface, I decided to find a really useable solution.

I was using Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 on my Ubuntu laptop to read all the emails from all my mail boxes. I tried Lightening 0.8 …

This post is not intended to participate in any troll throwing competition and doesn't aim at (re)starting any flame war with emacs users.

I'm using vim for some times, but in many occasions I could see how few of its features I am using. I discovered today some interesting …

Today I wondered why there is two classes to handle vectors in Java: java.util.ArrayList and java.util.Vector. After having carefully read the javadoc, I found that the Vector is synchronized on the contrary of the ArrayList. Thus, there will be a difference only for threaded applications.

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From my first project report containing code at school I had the need to create a syntax highlighting tool for OpenOffice.org. These last years I had no time to do it. Even if I don't have more currently, having stopped the Eclipse plugin for OpenOffice.org development gives me …

Only 7 days before the end of the first period of the Alfresco Webscript contest. Alfresco has launched a context to stimulate the creation of nice and useful webscripts from the community. You can read the Alfresco contest page to get more informations on this context.

During my previous missions …

Today, I wanted to get the list of the export and import filters managed by OpenOffice.org. It took me quite a long time to find out how to automatically distinguish an import filter form an export filter.

The first thing to look for is any API to get the …

Even if I'm working on Alfresco projects for a little bit more than one year, I haven't posted any message on this development adventure. Today will be the first post on that topic but maybe not the only one.

To get introduced to Alfresco development it takes quite a long …

I had a look at Lotus Symphony Beta 4 last week and I'm having a lot of doubts after that. The main difference between Lotus Symphony Beta 4 and the previous versions is that it comes with an SDK. Symphony extensions will be based on Eclipse plugins' system, not on …