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…
A Little Introduction into BBcode
BBcode is a gutted version of HTML designed to facilitate some basic formatting and enrichment of your posts on the forum, but without compromising the security and presentation of the…
The EggBlog Adventure
As I said in my About preamble, I want to have a blog-site with the primary purpose of supporting my interest in the OOo programme. However that being said, I…