At last, the national broadcaster for Ireland, RTE has moved into the 21st century, and has got RSS feeds
The feeds are
Excellent 
MarkMc has been reading Joel on Software
Both Pee and myself are reading it.
It has a lot more pratical and entertaining than some of the classical Software Engineering textbooks and is easy enough to read as a bedtime book.
Go read it
This is nice bit of code to create user defined attributes as part of properties of services in OpenOffice.org
userAttrs = cell.getPropertyValue( "UserDefinedAttributes" )
myAttr = uno.createUnoStruct( "com.sun.star.xml.AttributeData" )
myAttr.Type = "CDATA"
myAttr.Value = "MyURL"
userAttrs.insertByName( "url", myAttr )
Thanks to DannyB on OOoForums.org for this.
Paula has got herself a new website – Go Visit, http://www.pollybean.com
Propylon are looking for folks for the Parliamentary Workbench product.
They are looking for people with experience in OpenOffice.org ( API and core C++ ), Python, Zope and Plone.
There is both permanent and contract positions, if you are interested, email me a CV to darragh.sherwin at propylon.com
I decided over christmas to try to build a PVR box.
I ordered a MSI barebones box with the usual extras.
There is several very good PVR software packages like Mediaportal for Windows and MythTV for Linux, but I’m going to use Freevo as it is written in Python, yummy
Build your own PVR seems to be a good website for PVR builders.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
BTW, anybody know about the internals of the NTL digital decoder box?
Had an Indian take-away from Bombay Pantry, and it is one of the best take-aways I ever had. It is little expensive but well worth it.
If you like your Indian food, get yourself down to it, you won’t be disappointted.
If that’s not a great big vindication for OpenOffice.org, I don’t know what it is, 
For all the new features due in OpenOffice.org check out the new features page on the OpenOffice.org marketing website
I have started using blogBuddy for blogging from Windows.
It’s small and quite light with not to much functionality but just enough to blog.
It works for WordPress/Blogger API blogs.
PyUNO came up a few times during OOoCon.
A few people expressed a concern about the maturity of PyUNO, well I want to cast away any shadows of doubt, PyUNO is definitely mature, so mature we use it in a production enviroment, we have approximately 70000 lines of python code that uses PyUNO in the Parliamentary Workbench and we are selling this stuff to governments. So YES PyUNO is mature enough to use in a production environment
I have got a brand new flying combine harvester.
And I’ll give you the keys..
[Fromengadget]
Python Meetup is going ahead tomorrow night, the 9th of Septmeber in 4 Dame Lane from around 7pm.
See Python Meetup for more info and list of people already signed up
Quiet sacry if you have gone into a Pizza place and see how much information they have on computer about you – http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html
Python Meet up Dublin
Update: More on Sean’s Blog about it
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32901
Caolan to test it on linux
From Phil Windley: Dana’s bumper sticker summary of the talk is “Jabber enables Web services without the baggage.”.
That’s a bumper sticker I want!
[via Bill de hÓra]
I was going through this pain for the last while, but I have figured this out:
Character |
Firefox |
OpenOffice.org |
ASCII |
| Á | %C1 | %C3%81 | 0193 |
| á | %E1 | %C3%A1 | 0225 |
| É | %C9 | %C3%89 | 0201 |
| é | %E9 | %C3%A9 | 0233 |
| Í | %CD | %C3%8D | 0205 |
| í | %ED | %C3%AD | 0237 |
| Ó | %D3 | %C3%93 | 0211 |
| ó | %F3 | %C3%B3 | 0243 |
| Ú | %DA | %C3%9A | 0218 |
| ú | %FA | %C3%BA | 0250 |
