Thinkovation » open source http://www.thinkovation.com/blog Gary Barnett's Blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:07:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Congratulations to the Redmonk Team http://www.thinkovation.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/congratulations-to-the-redmonk-team/ http://www.thinkovation.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/congratulations-to-the-redmonk-team/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:33:07 +0000 Gary Barnett http://www.thinkovation.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/congratulations-to-the-redmonk-team/ Stephen O’Grady, James Governor, and Michael Coté have made it into LinuxWorld’s top leaders in Open Source. See Here

Redmonk is a small firm that has a huge influence with the OSS and developer communities – They’re way more influential than many much much larger firms…..

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So far, the process has been a fairly predictable mix of frustration (“how the hell do I set up styles in OpenOffice Writer???”) and pleasant surprises (“oooh… actually that’s pretty cool…”).

But now I’ve encountered my first proper bug… and it’s annoying the hell out of me.

All I want to do is add a set of “standard” colours to open office… Here’s a subset of them..


Some of the colours I want to add to open office

So… how hard can that be?

All you do is open Tools>Options, then select Colors from the treeview and you get a lovely dialog-box that allows you to edit/add/remove colours from the standard set.

OpenOffice Color Dialog
“How hard can that be?”

It’s a piece of cake. Except when OO crashes…

I can add one color, but if I add a second in the same session (ie without closing OO and restarting) it crashes – EVERY time.

Now, I’m motivated enough to -

  1. keep going
  2. down-load the latest release (Since I’m on 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 is now GA c)
  3. register with OpenOffice in order to look at the bug tracker and report the bug if it is still present in the latest release

But I’m not “normal” in this regard. My Mum, for example, would give up – concluding that OO “doesn’t work”….

As it happens, the download of version 2.3.1 has eliminated this bug, so everything’s tickety-boo, except that I’m slightly annoyed that I have to download the entire OO suite to move from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 ;-)

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I can’t get over how good it was.

It begins with a pretty simple ui:

Main Window of the MySQL Migration Toolkit

Then you click “Next” and it takes you through the steps outlined in the Migration path:

The migration process

You troop through the steps and “hey presto”.

Absolutely rocking.

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