[GRLUG] OpenOffice.org as Access replacement

[Steve Romanow]

Kindof as a side note.  I have been using calc pretty much full time
for a month, and I prefer it over excel.

On 1/15/10, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 15:49 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> Let us know how it works out; I rather like the concepts given by GUI
>> database design tools, and would have loved to use Base for simple
>> thing, but I haven't been motivated to spend time on seeing if it had
>> gotten any better. It sounds like you're doing some interesting things
>> with it, and I'd love to know if it's up to the task, now.
>
> Ditto!
>
>> On 1/15/2010 3:44 PM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>> > Well I started hacking with OO.org base and I have had no crashes as
>> > of yet.  Base uses hsqldb which I believe is comparable to sqlite.  I
>> > decided to try Base out because my work uses a lot of spreadsheets
>> > that I would love to connect to our database(AS400) and automate a lot
>> > of stuff.
>> > Right now my app has a database back end designed using Base.  I have
>> > a few Basic functions that query that db and work with that data, and
>> > a dialog that does nothing but pop up a message box saying "HI".
>
> So you've written StarBasic code?  I'd really like to see that, or see a
> demo.
>
>> > I'm pretty happy so far, but the documentation is pretty lacking.
>
> That has scared me off in the past; in general OOo documentation is
> terrible.
>
>> > Thanks for all the suggestions.  I hadn't heard of most of them.  Now
>> > that I am starting to get back into the programming groove, I have a
>> > lot more ideas that I'd like to flesh out.
>> > RoR  and python is something that I have tried in the past, but this
>> > was a time when my programming mojo was on the decline and I wasn't
>> > motivated to work on it.  Looks like python in particular has a lot of
>> > projects using it now, as evidenced by the ones you all have brought
>> > to light as well as OO.org using it as a scripting engine.  It seems
>> > that knowing it would be very useful.
>
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