This is just a short note. I couldn’t go much further without recommending my key tool without which I could not live. That is jEdit with a variety of plugins. By itself, jEdit is an excellent little text editor. With plugins it can provide a wonderful development environment. I tried test versions of a number…
I’ve seen many comments and questions on the various e-mail lists about just how compatible OpenOffice, especially OpenOffice.org Writer, actually is with Microsoft Office. I’ve largely converted my own business, including the publishing element (Energion Publications), and while there are some difficulties, the change in cost is well worth it. Even for a very small…
I tried to install MarcoEditor for Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird last night. Note that there is a warning on the support site about problems uninstalling the macro due to old format XPI file. I had no intention of uninstalling it, however, so I went ahead anyhow. Everything went well for Firefox, but when I installed it to Thunderbird…
This post is more of a story and may not be all that helpful, but then again, it might. I used to do a little bit of programming in Java, most applets, and so I decided I’d look at Java for OpenOffice.org and see where that got me. Having installed the SDK and gotten everything…
I have just downloaded OpenWatcom C/C++ to try. Since I rarely use C++ professionally any more, but still like to tinker, I want to see if there is a good open source option for me to play with. For maintenance of existing projects, of course, I will stick with my Borland C++ Builder 6. I’ll…
The second thing I noticed today on the Amazon.com Associates blog was this tip on making a single item enhanced item link that randomly displays items from a list. I used that tip to create the enhanced link to the left that displays a list of books on the major open source projects in which…
I was checking out the Amazon.com associates blog today and found a couple of items that interest me. The first is Amazon.com UnSpun which is simply a list service. Those involved in AWS may be interested to know that it uses the Amazon Mechanical Turk to initial populate new lists. It does not currently provide…
There’s an important OpenOffice BASIC guide that I failed to mention previously. It’s official, and the main index of the help file for OO BASIC, so I assumed it without mentioning it. It is Programming Guide for BASIC on docs.sun.com. For someone like me who has some experience with VBA, but no clues about OpenOffice,…
I put out a couple of minor podcasts (Running Toward the Goal and Bible Pacesetter Podcast), and I’ve worked through a number of options for audio software. Recently I’ve started to use Audacity. I’m not an audio expert. What I like about this software is that it’s open source and freely available, something I want…
On a spreadsheet I needed to enter a formula in one cell and then fill down with that formula over a range. My first thought was that, as in VBA, I would record a macro and get the commands. I sometimes do that when I just can’t remember and am too lazy to look everything…
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