User talk:YerayRD
Toma de contacto con OpenOffice.org
1. What is OpenOffice.org?:
First of all, I should introduce a general concept about what OpenOffice.org is... OpenOffice is a package that includes some applications for working in the office and school world. What makes this project interesting is that everyone can program this applications because OpenOffice.org, as its name says, is an open source code what means that everyone can improve the functionalities that are already done in the package or create new ones. The OpenOffice package is composed by OpenOffice.org Base, OpenOffice.org Calc, OpenOffice.org Draw, OpenOffice.org Impress, OpenOffice.org Math and OpenOffice.org Writer.
2. Extension developer:
My current target in the OpenOffice.org project is Extension developer, what means I should improve the OpenOffice.org package with new functionalities or maybe improving old ones. For that, I have a tutor from México, I am from Canary Islands, Spain and the time difference is around 6 six hours what makes this practices a little bit more difficult. Also, the vocabulary that we use sometimes is different even if we speak spanish, I have noticed that we use the spanish in different ways but it isnt anything that we cant solve. We use IRC for communicate with each other and also the webmail. Majority I get the documentation from the OpenOffice.org Wiki where everything is explained with examples, it has a lot of information and sometimes I think it is too much because I have got lost when I tried to find something it has a lot of link and it makes me confuse. This is the link for the main page of the wiki: “http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page “
3. Getting Started in OpenOffice.org development world:
What do we need for starting a OpenOffice.org project? In my case, I am using Win7. My tutor said it would not be a problem as long I do not try to test any scripts, so I continued with Win7. I started trying java projects so I needed Netbeans software and also the OpenOffice.org package + OOo with SDK (Software Development Kit), I downloaded it on “http://download.openoffice.org/ “. My first “big” problem was that I couldnt add the OpenOffice.org plugin to Netbeans, so I could not run it, after couple of days I discovered that the last version of Netbeans 7.0.1 did not work with the OpenOffice.org plugin, so I had to change to another older like Netbeans 6.8. After following the steps on the wiki OpenOffice.org Netbeans Integration (“http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_NetBeans_Integration “). When I solved the problem I could make some examples in Java. But looks like I am not going to program Java, the target right now is to work in Python, something that for me its totally new so I guess I will take more time that it shoulds. I am knowing how Python works and I have tried to test some examples without using OOo and here is where I found the disadvantage of working on Windows because I cant testing as my tutor told me the first days.
