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Fridrich Strba: Service announcement: openning of SXW files produced by early versions of wpd2sxw in LibreOffice 20 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
Just a service announcement for those that might have around still SXW files generated from WordPerfect documents by the wpd2sxw tool version 0.6.x or earlier (years 2004 and before). Those files used...
Fridrich Strba: Extending the Swiss Army knife - an overview about writing of filters for LibreOffice 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
LibreOffice is sometimes regarded as the Swiss army knife when it comes to opening office file-formats. Although it might be a slight exaggeration, it is a point of honour of the development team to t...
Hubert Figuiere: Your next mobile app should be web based 2 Jul 2013 | 03:40 am
There is no question about that. I just switched from an Android phablet made by Samsung, device I came to hate for many reasons, to a Firefox OS Geeksphone Keon. That was my second Android phone, I ...
Hubert Figuiere: Exempi 2.2.1 2 Jul 2013 | 03:40 am
Just a quick note to announce that I released Exempi 2.2.1. It was long overdue. It is mostly a couple of bugfixes. Here is the short Changelog Bug #54011: Use POSIX API for files on MacOS. (Misty D...
Fridrich Strba: LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats - smile and say "mwaw"! 21 Jun 2013 | 03:10 pm
Attentive reader of this blog remembers that, besides improvements in the most frequently used file-formats, each major release of LibreOffice adds to the list of document file-formats that are freed ...
Hubert Figuiere: C++ 11 in your project 12 Jun 2013 | 10:30 am
C++ 11 is now available in both gcc and clang. That mean it is really available where it matters. Using C++ 11 in your project (with autoconf). First if you use autoconf, you have to detect it. The ...
Fridrich Strba: LibreOffice Google Summer of Code 2013 - selected projects 28 May 2013 | 09:10 pm
There is now again the period of the year when the results of Google Summer of Code selection are public. As for LibreOffice project, we have got 13 slots this year. We love you, Google! We really do!...
Hubert Figuiere: Mozilla is 15 3 Apr 2013 | 10:56 am
Mozilla is 15 and that's 15 years of fighting for the open web. I remember the source code release, I built it on in Pentium 166 with 64MB of RAM - a Debian box. I maybe less RAM than that, I forgot. ...
Hubert Figuiere: The importance of RSS and friends 20 Mar 2013 | 07:33 pm
Google did shutdown Reader, their feed aggregator. Speculation is that it is to promote the use of the proprietary publishing silo that is Google+, and I'm not saying as a Google+ grudge I might hold,...
Hubert Figuiere: Happy MMXIII 2 Jan 2013 | 10:32 pm
It is the new year. We have a tendency to put artificial starting points in time to want to (start to) do things, something like the "new year resolutions". I don't really abide to that because I beli...
