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…
A slight case of ME/CFS
It’s back, and with a vengeance! I had my first bout of ME/CFS 21 years ago only in those days it was just called ME. Three months ago I had…
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…
VBA vs OOo Basic Performance II
This article follows on from VBA vs OOo Basic Performance where I discussed OOo Basic performance and coding efficiency, and one of the specific issues was “how long does it…
VBA vs OOo Basic Performance
I am currently working on a HOWTO on VBA to OOB migration. As part of this I have been doing a benchmark comparison on their relative performance. The preliminary results…
Differences in Error Handling between VBA and OOo Basic
I have been looking at the difference in how OOo Basic (OOB) and VBA handle errors. I started from the basis of a whitepaper that I wrote (see Error Handling…