I wanted for a long time to have one database client to access databases of different types like HSQLDB, MySQL, SQLite, etc. I finally found an interesting one in Java. It only needs to have the JDBC driver for the RDBMS that should be accessed. This is a free software …
During the time my website was down, I was afraid of having lost some data. Among them were the 400 photos of my wedding and some interesting articles about UNO. To avoid this I decided to setup some backup scripts. It is easily done using:
During more than one month my blog was down. I had several complains about the missing OpenOffice.org Eclipse integration update site. This is mainly due to my ISP for not warning when they unactivate an account. In fact Free.fr as unactivated my account due to too many spam …
This morning I was browsing the Javadoc FAQ for some
information, and I found an other really interesting one. Javadoc is a
tool which is mostly know for Java code API documentation generation.
However, you can change the result of Javadoc by setting different
doclets. A doclet is a Java …
I was working very slowly during the last weeks on a major code cleaning of the OOo Eclipse integration. I did it using checkstyle rules and the eclipse-cs plugin. These rules are including some importants points like:
I was very …
I have already read about the new-style UNO services constructors, but I had never used them. Last week I discovered the power hidden in this tiny UNO improvement. Let's consider the following service specification:
module org { module openoffice { module test {
service Customer : XCustomer {
Customer( [in] string customerId );
};
}; }; };
To implement such …
As I'm usually using the OOo API from Basic code, I'm using
the convertToUrl() and convertFromUrl() Basic functions to handle
URLs. The problem is that I had to do the same in Java extension. Of
course, the toExternalString() method of a Java URL object doesn't
return an OOo internal URL …
Every developer needs a way to debug its applications. It goes the same way for OpenOffice.org Java extensions. At the OOoCon 2008 in Barcelona, Steffen Grund explained me how he integrated OOo Java extensions debugging in the Netbeans plugin. Even if it was very interesting, I only had time …
I recently wanted to get the list of all file types handled by
OpenOffice.org using the API. Of course I wanted to get their
internationalized names. I discovered a very interesting service while
browsing the API reference: com.sun.star.document.TypeDetection.
Here is a sample of StarBasic code …
As you might know, Wordpress is really to setup and use. However you need to add some PHP code to your theme for many plugins... including the Original one. A few days ago, I discovered a fantastic wordpress plugin: widget, helping users to configure the appearance of their blog's sidebar …