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Bookmarks I’ve shared for 2010-09-27 to 2010-09-30:

• Enterprise Microblogging Use Cases: Help Reduce Your Inbox Clutter!

  microblogging

• WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial

  wp Multisite WordPress

• WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Getting Started with Multisite

  WordPress Multisite wp

• Costs and risks to consider when planning a move to the public cloud

  SOA case-studies cloud-computing cloud

• The Internet’s Library of Economic Statistics | timetric.com
  Online economic data series with a fancy interface
  data visualization statistics graph charts
• How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools » Nieman Journalism Lab

  data guardian.co.uk

• 7 Things That Blogging Does | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  Blogging = Critical Thinking<br />
  Blogging = Ideation<br />
  Blogging = Tinkering<br />
  Blogging = Relationships<br />
  Blogging = Business<br />
  Blogging = Sharing<br />
  Blogging = Exhaust Valve
  blogging
• Quality Control—A WordPress Theme
  Turn a basic WordPress install into a simple and straight-forward ticketing system. Quality Control allows users to create tickets, assign statuses, milestones, categories, and tags. Other users can then interact with the tickets, updating their state, milestone, or any other property.
  wordpress bugtracker
• Local Council Spending Data: The Good, The Bad, and The Downright Obstructive

  council opendata

• What 108M Lines of Code Tell Us
  The Agile Executive highlights a CAST report into the technical debt of major enterprise applications.
  technicaldebt codequality
• Four roles for social media in workplace learning

  socialmedia organisations learning

• Moving Past Legacy Networking in a Virtualized Data Center
  Intel and VMWare sponsored whitepaper
  VMWare Intel networking cloud 10GbE
• Dilbert: The New Social Media Manager

  dilbert socialmedia

• Welcome to The Document Foundation!
  Fork of OpenOffice.org to maintain independence
  libreoffice openoffice opensource
• Domain-Driven Design Community

  development programming DDD

• Technical Debt a Perspective for Managers
  Good overview article, with some practical suggestions for paying down technical debt
  technical-debt agile programming development
• Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

  architecture domaindrivendesign software

• 50 Great Web Alternatives to Desktop Software

  applications webtools software

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-04-30

• Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button:

  Keywords: firefox/extensions, digg

• A very important post for decision-makers considering OpenOffice.org:
  Actually it’s important for any technology rollout – by definition, if you are the person who thought of the technology, you are almost certainly going to over-estimate the technology skills of your users.
  Keywords: openoffice/migration, userexperience
• FoxyTunes 2.9:
  Firefox plugin that acts as a common control interface for all the music players you use, but then goes much further with links to all sorts of web goodness about artists and tracks.
  Keywords: firefox/extensions, music, web2-0

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-12-19

• FCKeditor:
  Lightweight HTML text editor
  Keywords: Ajax, Development, Java, Plugins, Webmaster
• Introduction to COM Interop:
  MSDN January 2007
  Keywords: Development, COM, MSDN, DotNet
• Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code:
  MSDN January 2007
  Keywords: Development/Debugging, DotNet, MSDN
• History of Flanders:

  Keywords: Places, Flanders, Belgium, France

• Tracking 404 Pages with Google Analytics:
  Using Google Analytics to diagnose website faults
  Keywords: Webmaster, Tools
• New beta release of Compendium:
  1.5.2
  Keywords: ConceptMapping, PKM, Compendium
• OpenOffice 2.0: Master page hacks make better spreadsheets:

  Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo

• Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files:

  Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo

• Getting an HTML Table Into a Spreadsheet in OpenOffice Calc:

  Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo

• Visio template for UML2.0:
  Pavel Hruby’s templates
  Keywords: Visio, UML

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-10-22

• How to Create a MindManager 6 Add-in:
  Using a sample C# project
  Keywords: MindManager/Scripting, C#
• OpenDocument4all:
  Info and tools about OpenDocument including C# library
  Keywords: OpenOffice, C#, Scripting

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-10-18

• Custom OO Shapes:
  Collection of custom shapes for OpenOffice Draw
  Keywords: OpenOffice, Tools, Drawing

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-01

• Bristol Switches to StarOffice:
  Account of Bristol City Council’s move to StarOffice, with links to backing documents
  Keywords: Enterprise_IT, Migration, OpenOffice

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-07

• What is Microsoft doing for security?:
  Peter Torr, Microsoft Security Program Manage, summarises what Microsoft is doing to build security into its products
  Keywords: Microsoft/Security, Security
• Unsupportable systems:
  Good post from John Dale about how changes in volume. changes in complexity and loss of knowledge can creep up on an IT organisation to make systems unsupportable.
  Keywords: Enterprise_IT, KM, Scalability, Supportability
• NSA on redacting Word and PDF documents:
  via RISKS
  Keywords: Security
• Setting Up Outlook 2003 Cached Exchange Mode Accounts:
  How and why Cached Exchange mode may be useful
  Keywords: Exchange,, Microsoft/Outlook, Mobile, Working
• OpenOffice: ToCs, Links and PDFs:
  How to build linky PDFs from your documents, including Tables of Contents
  Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo, PDF
• How to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool (part 1):
  Introduction – creating database, creating tables.
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• How to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool (Part 2):
  Data entry forms
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 Base: Getting the right views:
  How to create Views in OpenOffice 2.0 database tool
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms:
  More on how to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool – creating forms
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms, part two:
  More on how to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool – forms part 2
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-06

• RSS and Copyright:
  John Palfrey – Berkman Center, Harvard Law School – on the issues raised by sites which republish syndicated feeds
  Keywords: IPR, RSS, Syndication
• Scrum for Docs:
  Notes from Microsoft’s Rob Caron on using the Scrum process for managing document production in a technical writing team.
  Keywords: Project_Management/Scrum, Scrum
• The ACID Model:
  A reminder of the four goals of any dataase system: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability.
  Keywords: Databases
• Crash course in learning theory:
  Great notes from Kathy Sierra on the insights from learning theory that can make your presentation or training course that little bit more effective.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science, Emotional_Intelligence, Presentations, Training

• kmwiki:
  
  Keywords: KM/Wikis, Wiki
• More on Chunking as an Alternative to Multitasking:
  Lisa Haneberg offers advice and a planning sheet to help with chunking your to-do list…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Agile links:
  Blog post full of links on Agile from Clarke Ching
  Keywords: Agile
• Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs:
  Generate and download unusual graph paper as PDF. I’ve found the "Cornell Note Taking System PLUS Graph Paper" one to be really good for mind-mapping meetings with space for action lists etc down the side…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Bristol City Council Open Source Academy:
  Home page for various papers from Bristol City Council based on their experience of moving to OpenOffice.
  Keywords: OpenOffice/Migration
• Visual cognitive styles:
  Two sorts of visualisation – people who construct images of objects, and people who construct images of spatial relationships amongst objects.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science

I’ve been trying to automate OpenOffice from Ruby to carry out a batch format conversion of approximately 100 documents. I’ve researched a fair amount on the web, especially here, here and here, but I’m still having problems.

Specifically all works until I try and save a document using parameters (to tell OpenOffice to use an output filter), at which point the OLE Bridge is giving an error.

If anyone reading this has found and cured a similar problem I’d be interested in your thoughts. Code snip follows:
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