New OpenOffice.org User Forum(s) on line
I’ve just finished the third version upgrade of the OOo sites, this time to version 3.0.5. It was a little smoother than last time, but that’s because I have to…
Migrating the OpenOffice.Org forums to a common code-base
Background The OpenOffice.org (“OOo”) forums (“Community Forums”) started life in Nov 2007 with the creation of the English forum running on phpBB 3.0.0 on a Sun Coolstack platform with PostgreSQL…
Setting up the OpenOffice.org User Forum
For the last six months I’ve been an active member of the OooForum, but a number of the more active members became dissatisfied with the guy who is the owner…
Understanding memory leaks in OOo and avoiding their impact
I've answered a couple of recent topics on the openoffice forum which related to a general slowdown of systems running OOo, and a common thread here is the impact of…
Terry’s Adventure in Build OOo — Part III
A Little Hick-up Getting Into gdb I had a little fun in actually getting debugging to work under a VMware appliance. As soon as I did a gdb <path>/soffice.bin that…
Terry’s Adventure in Build OOo — Part II
It is four months since I last posted on this one: Terry’s Adventure in Build OOo — Part I . OK a big part of the delay has been heavy…
Building a VMware Appliance Playpen
I decided to use Ubuntu 6.06 as a playpen for building OOo. However one of the things about a playpen is that you want to make sure that any changes that…
Terry’s Adventure in Build OOo — Part I
The run up to the build This is about the nearest I've got so far to doing a classic diary-style blog article. I decided to build a simple test bed…