Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Mittwoch Mai 07, 2008

Running different operating systems in parallel
In case you did not notice, a new version of VirtualBox just came out. I use VirtualBox on my MacBook to also run Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris, so that I can easily take screenshots on other platforms or test software on other platforms. For example users might want to test the new OpenSolaris using VirtualBox. VitualBox definitely has made my life much easier!
( Mai 07 2008, 03:44:47 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [0]

Groovy For OpenOffice.org
Cool! With it's now even possible to use Groovy for OpenOffice.org programming. The website says: "Groovy For OpenOffice is an OpenOffice Extension that adds support for scripting OpenOffice Macros in Groovy".
( Mai 07 2008, 03:36:05 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [0]

Useful MySQL / OpenOffice.org Tutorial
Roland Bouman wrote a very nice tutorial about using MySQL in connection with OpenOffice.org. Here is a short extract:

"Of course, I do not want to suggest that MySQL "...is a Desktop Database", because it's not. Rather, MySQL is a general-purpose database, so there's no reason at all to dismiss it for typical "Desktop Database" purposes.

Even though MySQL is a server product, MySQL resembles a typical Desktop Database in a number of ways. For example, MySQL is not extravagantly resource-hungry, and does not require much maintenance - (not for this purpose anyway). So, there's not much against using MySQL here.

In fact, it's probably a good idea to back your Desktop Database applications with MySQL. A lot of the typical problems (resource contention due to locking, file corruption due to crashing application programs, scale limits, and much much more) that you encounter as these applications grow larger, are either not-existent or easily solved using a server solution such as MySQL.

So - let's dive in, and see what it takes to use MySQL in the daily office. Oh yeah - I once did a write-up on connecting MS Access and MySQL. This time, we won't be using MS Office at all. We'll use OpenOffice.org instead."
( Mai 07 2008, 03:30:39 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [0]

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta now available for download!
As can be read in the announcement, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta is now available. Considering these customer reviews at Amazon, I have the feeling that the Mac version of OpenOffice.org will become very popular!
( Mai 07 2008, 03:23:59 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]