Live from FOSDEM, Bruxelles
Today I´m in Buxelles for FOSDEM, the free and open source software developers european meeting. Here is the schedule, quite different from the usual Java conference, as you can see.
Anyway, instead of the usual wrap-up/my-impressions post, in this post I´m going to write down what´s happening here, live.
— OpenOffice extensions development in Java w/Netbeans in practise - Jürgen Schmidt
OpenOffice 2.4 for Mac looks really nice! It isn´t officially released yet, but the native interface rocks.
The presentations shows how to write you own extension for OpenOffice using Netbeans (in Java, obviously). To tell the complete truth, I didn´t know there were so many extensions for Ooo. Check this page:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
In particular, some of them look very interesting:
Sun Weblog Publisher
OpenOffice SVN extension
Openoffice 2 Google Docs
– Using Rails for agile development — K.V.d.Auwera, Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele explains his experience with Rais while buiding AlleJobIsLeuven.be. Allejobsinleuven.be
Uses Sphinx as search engine, and the rails plugin Ultraphinx Ultrasphinx to run and configure the search engine from Rails.
Other Rails plugin used:
- restful_authentication
- SSL support
- autocomplete
- simple captcha
The website took around 40 days to be built, from start of development to production day.
– RESTful best practices
www.frailers.net
Sorry… too boring
– Mobile Mozilla - Christian Sejersen
5 people of the Mozilla foundation are working actively on Mobile mozilla right now.
What´s a mobile browser should support
- web navigation
- widget platform
- interoperability with external devices
Platform under which Mobile Mozilla will run:
- Windows
- Linux
- maybe Symbian
The User Interface will be developed in XUL.
The goal is to have Mobile firefox at the end of 2008.
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