[GRLUG] OpenOffice.org as Access replacement

[Michael Mol]

OOo is my default replacement for spreadsheet and wordprocessing, as 
well. (Though I'll sometimes use Google Docs for the spreadsheet, if I 
don't need charting and such.)

On 1/15/2010 9:35 PM, Steve Romanow wrote:
> 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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