[dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

On 2013-10-10 11:34 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Arthur:
>
> It seems that the development world is moving away from desktop applications and that is the environment on which I also cut my teeth. It is now a web based world.
>
> To that end I have been working on a full web invoicing form. All other forms of any POS systems are relatively minor in comparison. It will take a while as conflicts abound.
>
> Note: Oracle has ceased all development in OpenOffice because the fork LibraOffice is now the new standard. This means OO is effectively dead, long live LO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
>
> Note also: Various languages like Basic, Python and Java can be used in LibraOffice...but I know none of the details, yet.

If you can write PHP or Perl for LO, why would you want to write Basic, 
yech?

PB

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>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 5:00:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare
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> Just about the only reason that I still have any instances of Windows is
> for development in Access and/or SQL Server. Pretty much everything else
> that I do, such as writing documents, email, play music, burn DVDs, etc., I
> can do just as well or better in Linux.
>
> One sad shortcoming of LibreOffice and OpenOffice is that they don't
> support or provide anything equivalent to VBA (the coding language built
> into virtually all the MS Office products). That lack prevents migration of
> lots and lots of stuff that I've written. For example, grab a resultset
> from SQL, pump it into Excel for its charting capabilities, plonk the chart
> into a Word document, save the Word document as a PDF and invoke the user's
> email client, filling in the "To" and "Subject" stuff from data and
> attaching the PDF -- and all this happens as a result of a button-click in
> an Access app. That kind of power is sorely missed in the Linux Office apps.
>
> However, I can still get there in a VM running inside Linux. But I wish
> that I could cut this last tie to MS, and then say goodbye once and for
> all.
>
> A.
>
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