Finally, with recent release of Sun’s JDK 5.0 Update 8 I can run Netbeans on my systems running Xgl!!! It was such a pain having to open Netbeans in a seperate Xnest window to do any development (or use one of my none-Xgl systems, hooray for the Mac!).
[Upstart]
It appears that Ubuntu is working on an […]
…was born on June 28, 2006 at 6:10 pm. A healthy 6 lbs. 11 0z. 21 inch long baby boy.
(picture taken with my new Motorola Q)
While catching up on some news reading this weekend I came across this interesting headline: “Microsoft Tries to Reclaim HPC Market Share from Linux“. I knew that MS had been working for the last several YEARS trying to create a product to enter the HPC market and it seems they are finally ready to […]
[Personal Updates]
Graduation Weekend! The Wife is graduating from medical school this weekend. Next weekend we are moving to Latrobe. In about a month the Wife will be starting residency. In two months we are expecting our first child…a lot going on!
[Work Updates]
After we move I will be staying with the same company and […]
So Writely is now part of Google. The Idea of an online word processor is great and has many possiblities. An online word processor that can read/write the OpenDocument format is even better!
I mentioned in a previous post that I had done some testing with Writely uploading and saving files in both […]
It’s been a while since I made a post on the ol’ blog and there has been a lot I have wanted to say so I will try to quickly do a little catch up post. So without further ado, and in reverse chronological order…
[Netbeans 5.0]
I just noticed that Netbeans 5.0 final has been […]
[TextMaker Adds ODF Support]
It looks like we will be able to add yet another application to our list of programs that do/will support the OpenDocument Format! SoftMaker’s word processing application, TextMaker, will include OpenDocument compatability in it’s next version. There is currently a beta available for TextMaker 2005 for Windows and a Linux […]
The developers behind Flock have just released a preview of what they have been working on! Flock is based on Firefox but adds a lot of new ways of doing things. Social bookmarking, tagging, blogging…it does it all. It has a ton of features so go check it out…
Flock
…and they say open source does not […]
Absolutely brilliant! There has been a LOT of chatter on MS related blogs about a new “innovative” feature in the upcoming version of MS Office…the ability to save documents in PDF format! WOW, all I can say is it’s about time. They certianly did not get the idea from another well known […]
According to this article on eWeek Corel’s WordPerfect will be supporting the OpenDocument format!
So far these are the applications I have heard that intend to support the OpenDocument standard:
StarOffice
OpenOffice.org
KOffice
Abiword
Gnumeric
…and now WordPerfect
And the list keeps growing!