User: jpmcc Date: 2008-01-26 13:03:20+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Refresh File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 Delta lines: +30 -30 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-01-26 12:29:18+0000 1.3 +++ atom.xml 2008-01-26 13:03:18+0000 1.4 @@ -5,9 +5,27 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T12:32:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:03:59+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet launched</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/openofficeorg-marketing-planet-launched.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2029682064255397064</id> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">Today, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet was launched. John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, has set-up a site that collects feeds from a variety of OpenOffice.org-relevant blogs and combines them on one site with direct links to each blog. A brilliant idea, available at <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</a></content> + <author> + <name>floeff</name> + <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">The Year of the 3.0</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/01/25/the-year-of-the-30/"/> @@ -105,7 +123,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -123,7 +141,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -141,7 +159,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -159,7 +177,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -263,7 +281,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -281,7 +299,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -299,7 +317,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -317,7 +335,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -335,7 +353,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -353,7 +371,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -371,7 +389,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:58:10+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -397,22 +415,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">No macro or VBA support for MS Office's Excel 2008</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-macro-or-vba-support-for-ms-office.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8730420530211044910</id> - <updated>2008-01-15T11:35:13+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><br /> <div>A <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/02/first-looks-at-mac-microsoft-office-2008/">first look</a> by MacRumors at MS Office 2008 for Mac gave a surprise: No VBA for Excel.<br /><br />This is quite important. It's important because the business community has come to rely on MS's VBA for macros and other scripted actions. To be sure, Microsoft is evidently going to use Apple Script more, but there is no translation from VBA to Apple Script, at least not that I know of. <br /><br />The result: a very costly and hobbled application of dubious merit, too, using a file format that is racing backward even as it tries t keep up with ODF.<br /><br />In contrast, OOo uses the ODF and also uses OOo <a href="http://www.linux.com/articles/48258">Basic</a>, which works in much the same way as VBA. There is even an effort underway to translate VBA to OOo Basic, and for many macros, I have been told, it is successful.<br /><br />The point: Any business, large or small, or even individual, with many macros already written (or that intends to write them), ought to think twice if not thrice before spending absurd amounts of money on an application that removes such a tool. And they ought to look at OOo which is not only free, but does have built-in macro tool that does, to a degree, translate from VBA. (BTW, there is a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA">project</a> furthering the interoperability between VBA and OOo Basic.)</div><br /></content> - <author> - <name>oulipo</name> - <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-01-26T11:57:59+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 Delta lines: +23 -22 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-01-26 12:29:18+0000 1.3 +++ index.html 2008-01-26 13:03:18+0000 1.4 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ <body> <div id="MyContent"> <h1>Marketing Planet</h1> -<p><em>Last updated: January 26, 2008 12:32 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Last updated: January 26, 2008 01:03 PM GMT</em></p> @@ -68,6 +68,28 @@ +<h2>January 26, 2008</h2> + + + + +<h3><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog">OOo Marketeers</a></h3> + + +<h4><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/openofficeorg-marketing-planet-launched.html";>OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet launched</a></h4> +<p> +Today, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet was launched. John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, has set-up a site that collects feeds from a variety of OpenOffice.org-relevant blogs and combines them on one site with direct links to each blog. A brilliant idea, available at <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/";>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</a></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/openofficeorg-marketing-planet-launched.html";>by floeff at January 26, 2008 01:02 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + + + + + <h2>January 25, 2008</h2> @@ -500,27 +522,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> - - - - - - - - - -<h3><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak">Louis Suarez-Potts</a></h3> - - -<h4><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-macro-or-vba-support-for-ms-office.html";>No macro or VBA support for MS Office's Excel 2008</a></h4> -<p> -<br /> <div>A <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/02/first-looks-at-mac-microsoft-office-2008/";>first look</a> by MacRumors at MS Office 2008 for Mac gave a surprise: No VBA for Excel.<br /><br />This is quite important. It's important because the business community has come to rely on MS's VBA for macros and other scripted actions. To be sure, Microsoft is evidently going to use Apple Script more, but there is no translation from VBA to Apple Script, at least not that I know of. <br /><br />The result: a very costly and hobbled application of dubious merit, too, using a file format that is racing backward even as it tries t keep up with ODF.<br /><br />In contrast, OOo uses the ODF and also uses OOo <a href="http://www.linux.com/articles/48258";>Basic</a>, which works in much the same way as VBA. There is even an effort underway to translate VBA to OOo Basic, and for many macros, I have been told, it is successful.<br /><br />The point: Any business, large or small, or even individual, with many macros already written (or that intends to write them), ought to think twice if not thrice before spending absurd amounts of money on an application that removes such a tool. And they ought to look at OOo which is not only free, but does have built-in macro tool that does, to a degree, translate from VBA. (BTW, there is a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA";>project</a> furthering the interoperability between VBA and OOo Basic.)</div><br /></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-macro-or-vba-support-for-ms-office.html";>by oulipo at January 15, 2008 11:35 AM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the OpenOffice.org Community. If you find any offensive or objectionable File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-01-26 12:29:18+0000 1.3 +++ opml.xml 2008-01-26 13:03:18+0000 1.4 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:32:23 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:03:59 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 Delta lines: +8 -8 ------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-01-26 12:13:40+0000 1.1 +++ rss10.xml 2008-01-26 13:03:18+0000 1.2 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2029682064255397064" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/01/25/the-year-of-the-30/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/open_source_software_has_the"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/advice_for_the_dutch_public"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8503763343478913245" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3404891655981036920" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/718"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8730420530211044910" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2029682064255397064"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet launched</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/openofficeorg-marketing-planet-launched.html</link> + <content:encoded>Today, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet was launched. John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, has set-up a site that collects feeds from a variety of OpenOffice.org-relevant blogs and combines them on one site with direct links to each blog. A brilliant idea, available at <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</a></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-01-26T13:02:34+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/01/25/the-year-of-the-30/";> <title>Charles Schulz: The Year of the 3.0</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/01/25/the-year-of-the-30/</link> @@ -202,12 +209,5 @@ <p>&#8220;Umashankar expects the entire operations of the government to gradually switch over to Linux/OpenOffice.org over the next 12 or 18 months. &#8220;Give it two or three virus attacks and you&#8217;ll see a faster migration,&#8221; he says tongue-in-cheek.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-01-15T15:41:28+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8730420530211044910"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: No macro or VBA support for MS Office's Excel 2008</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-macro-or-vba-support-for-ms-office.html</link> - <content:encoded><br /> <div>A <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/02/first-looks-at-mac-microsoft-office-2008/">first look</a> by MacRumors at MS Office 2008 for Mac gave a surprise: No VBA for Excel.<br /><br />This is quite important. It's important because the business community has come to rely on MS's VBA for macros and other scripted actions. To be sure, Microsoft is evidently going to use Apple Script more, but there is no translation from VBA to Apple Script, at least not that I know of. <br /><br />The result: a very costly and hobbled application of dubious merit, too, using a file format that is racing backward even as it tries t keep up with ODF.<br /><br />In contrast, OOo uses the ODF and also uses OOo <a href="http://www.linux.com/articles/48258">Basic</a>, which works in much the same way as VBA. There is even an effort underway to translate VBA to OOo Basic, and for many macros, I have been told, it is successful.<br /><br />The point: Any business, large or small, or even individual, with many macros already written (or that intends to write them), ought to think twice if not thrice before spending absurd amounts of money on an application that removes such a tool. And they ought to look at OOo which is not only free, but does have built-in macro tool that does, to a degree, translate from VBA. 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John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, has set-up a site that collects feeds from a variety of OpenOffice.org-relevant blogs and combines them on one site with direct links to each blog. 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It's important because the business community has come to rely on MS's VBA for macros and other scripted actions. To be sure, Microsoft is evidently going to use Apple Script more, but there is no translation from VBA to Apple Script, at least not that I know of. <br /><br />The result: a very costly and hobbled application of dubious merit, too, using a file format that is racing backward even as it tries t keep up with ODF.<br /><br />In contrast, OOo uses the ODF and also uses OOo <a href="http://www.linux.com/articles/48258">Basic</a>, which works in much the same way as VBA. There is even an effort underway to translate VBA to OOo Basic, and for many macros, I have been told, it is successful.<br /><br />The point: Any business, large or small, or even individual, with many macros already written (or that intends to write them), ought to think twice if not thrice before spending absurd amounts of money on an application that removes such a tool. And they ought to look at OOo which is not only free, but does have built-in macro tool that does, to a degree, translate from VBA. (BTW, there is a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA">project</a> furthering the interoperability between VBA and OOo Basic.)</div><br /></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:35:13 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
