Kahlil Johnson

Posts tagged with "2006"

Setting up an OpenOffice.org presentation for Developers

Wednesday, 21. March 2007, 16:33:18

conference, flisol, 2007, 2006 ...

Lately I have been working on a presentation for FLISOL 2007. I will be giving a conference about development on OpenOffice.org. Now I dont know much about general programming, so this might be a great challenge. So far I have been reading the OpenOffice.org wiki, and the videos from OOoCon.

So far I've seen Laurent Godard site as well as presentations at OOOCon. The way the development in OOoCon breaks down divide themselves into three different areas.

OOo API development
OOo Macros development
OpenDocument (XML) development

I plan to focus on the Macro development and collect much of the tools that developers work at. I hope to attract more and more devleopers and plan to show some snippet of code, manage components, and do a tour through the OpenOffice.org IDE.

For the code snippets I plan to give examples from the different languages that the macros can work on specially Python and OOoBasic. I am not sure if this talk will be recorded but it will be nice to have it in a podcast form or even better on Video. But at least I will bring my camera so I can get pictures of my talk. I will also post the presentation somewhere on the net and report back.

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XML is the future

Monday, 18. September 2006, 04:36:27

OOoCon, 2006, openoffice, XML ...

Having seen Svante Schubert talk about XML filters within OpenOffice.org the light bulbs always go on. Basically the theory that OOo might become an incredible WYIWYG XML editor to develop process and deploy schemas across the board is facinating.

Schemas such as ebXML, UBL, LegalXML and many others will be able to have a front-view thanks to the development of these filters.

OOo might find a nitch which includes the standarization of business process across companies, web services or servers that simply this process, assemble reports and finally make the OpenDocument format a format not restricted to the Office suite but also a default format for accesing and viewing data across the board.

We do still need a common-ground framework and eventually have the XML schema itself mature a bit more. I can see a business opportunity to develop ODF based components software and services to consume this data on a rather added value services.

On other news is actually intersting seen engineers from Sun and IBM working hand in hand to make OOo fly.

Bob and Svante