links for 2008-01-24

XML.com: Moving to OpenOffice: Batch Converting Legacy Documents OpenOffice is scriptable with javascript, python, beanshell and…. wait for it… a mutant form of VB. (tags: openoffice conversion word)

links for 2008-01-22

DocBookAuthoringTools – DocBook Wiki A whole list of potential docbook editing tools (tags: documentation editor xml docbook software) Docbook Editor Sourceforge project, but probably stale. (tags: docbook editor freeware software opensource xml)

links for 2007-12-07

The Finite Element Method – Java applet An undergrad project of mine was to take some old FORTRAN code and put a GUI on it (UCSD p-System!). Here’s the whole thing written in Java… the times they have a changed. Anyway I was looking for some contour plotting code. (tags: fem contour java applet engineering) … [Read more…]

links for 2007-11-21

MKSoft Insurrection Project – Subversion web interface Cute pun. This is a web interface to a subversion repository server (tags: programming software opensource scm tools web subversion svn) sventon – subversion repository browser Pure java subversion web interface (tags: java subversion software scm) Comparison: Subversion Web Access Apps A bit out of date. But some … [Read more…]

links for 2007-11-17

rsync – a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool Despite the (r) in the name, one of the most useful features is local file sync. I’ve used this to create a subversion working directory for a tool that doesn’t like .svn directories in it’s own directory structure. (tags: software configuration source development synchronization)