Synesthesia

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

Technorati Tags: DIGG, FireFox, Music, OpenOffice

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

Technorati Tags: ajax, COM, Development, dotnet, Flanders, History, java, MSDN, OpenOffice, PKM, plugins, UML, Visio, webmaster

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

Technorati Tags: C#, MindManager, OpenOffice, 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

Technorati Tags: drawing, OpenOffice, Tools

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

Technorati Tags: Enterprise-IT, 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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Technorati Tags: accessibility, Databases, Enterprise-IT, exchange, mobile-working, non-functional-requirements, OpenOffice, outlook, PDF, redaction, web-design

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

Technorati Tags: Agile, Databases, Emotional-Intelligence, Enterprise-IT, IPR, Knowledge_Management, OpenOffice, presentations, Productivity, Project_Management, Scrum, Syndication-Formats, Training, wiki

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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Technorati Tags: OpenOffice, Ruby, Scripting, Software_Development