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Firebird now in master

Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice master! It now builds on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux. (I’ve only tested on Linux but will be testing/fixing  as necessary on Mac/Windows this week.) The database driver itself is almost

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Embedded Firebird now working

The embedded firebird driver can now create new .odb’s using firebird, and open and save existing files — when running the firebird db is stored in a temporary file, this is copied into the .odb file every time it is

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Firebird building within LO

Things have been taking slighty longer than expected with the first stage of the Firebird integration project, I have however finally gotten Firebird building within LibreOffice both on Linux and Windows (Mac OS still to be tested). Firebird (2.5) is

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GSOC 2013: LibreOffice Firebird SQL Connector

Yesterday I found out that I’d been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2013 to work on LibreOffice! Many thanks to the Mentors for accepting me! My project involves implementing an SDBC driver for the Firbird SQL Database for

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Some Find Bar Improvements

The LibreOffice Find Bar has gained “Match Case” and “Find All” buttons to match the functionality of it’s Firefox Equivalent: The “Match Case” checkbox has made it into 4.1, I’m not sure whether the “Find All” will make it as

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Impress Remote for Firefox OS — Proof of Concept

I’ve started working on a version of the Impress Remote for Firefox OS. It currently only supports using TCP (i.e. Wifi or wired network), I’m going to start working on adding Bluetooth support once I get hold of some suitable

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Impress Remote first icon

More good news: the Libreoffice Design Team has come up with a first prototype icon for the remote (I hear they are working on further versions) — here’s a screenshot in context: Most of the development recently has been on

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Bluetooth on Windows for Impress Remote

Windows users will be glad to know that Impress Remote now supports bluetooth on windows, albeit only using the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, and not (at least for the moment) any of the other stacks. I am however looking into adding

Posted in GSOC2012, LibreOffice

Bluetooth in Impress Remote

The Impress Remote Control now supports bluetooth, albeit currently only on Linux machines. I’m going to be adding windows support as soon as the bluetooth dongle for my windows desktop arrives. In the meantime I’ve been working on a bit

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The latest “about” Impress Remote

I’ve doing a fair bit of background work on the Impress Remote, involving a tedious couple of days getting pairing functioning correctly and reliably, and refactoring various services. For example, now you can control which remotes can control your presentation

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