Monthly Archive: November 2007

Nov
28

Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007, Brisbane

Currently I am attending OSDC in Brisbane. I am very excited!. I listened and talked to a lot of interesting people like the founder of PHP, core developer of yahoo, google, mysql. What I gain in this conference is a real knowledge from what they do, why they do that and how they do that. …

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Nov
22

Eclipse 3.2 and 3.3 Update Site for Pydev, Maven and Subsclipse

Whenever I install eclipse, I always wasted my time searching for the update site. These are dependencies needed to install PyDev and Subsclipe in Eclipse (I assume that you know how to add the remote site and install those Eclipse packages): Mylar (Do not need anymore this since it’s com with pydev now) Mylar is …

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Nov
22

Choosing correct version of java being used in Ubuntu/Linux

When I tried to install Eclispe in Ubuntu, I used a wrong version of java. To configure java version to be used, in terminal, type this code: sudo update-alternatives –config java –> it’s dash dash config Output will be: There are 4 alternatives which provide `java’.   Selection    Alternative ———————————————–         …

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Nov
19

Browser incompatible issue in table rendition

Refer to: my blog on Playing with CSS and xhtml document and Browser and Known Issues I solved the problem to render table in Firefox and IE, as our ICE user increased, some of the uses Opera and Safari (both running in Window). Bugs that I found in Safari is that if border is lesser …

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Nov
18

Installing latex2html in window

Getting latex2html work in window is a real pain. Try to search a lot of forums to solve the below installation problem but seems like no luck… > Building “latex2html.bat” from “latex2html.pin” > … building pstoimg > build.pl (Revision 1.6) > config\build.pl: Warning: Skipping build of pstoimg because of missing external programs. > … building …

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Nov
18

Converting LaTex Document to xHtml using plasTeX

Another features will be added to ICE project that I work on. Since ICE is moving towards targetting Researcher in USQ, we are going to impliment LaTeX conversion to allow Researchers to view their LaTeX document in xHtml form instead of using latex command to compile to .dvi format and view the document using xdvi. …

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Nov
13

Firebug is known to make Gmail slow

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After installing Firebug so I can use it create my website easily, I realized that when I open my gmail, it just taking forever to load the page or will lead to a page asking me to view gmail in normal html format. Today, at work, I happened to see a big error message in …

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Nov
13

Working in UNO automation of OpenOffice

Currently, I am working as casual programmer in university. One main task that I have been dealing since the first day I started my contract till now is implementing OO UNO automation in our system called ICE. ICE is developed under python 2.4 and uses pyuno bridge to develop UNO component in python so we …

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