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Welcome to timwise.co.uk. This site belongs to Tim Abell, a software developer and open source convert in the UK.
Mail Merge in Libreoffice – Technology Against You
http://davidmburke.com/2011/08/10/mail-merge-in-libreoffice
David Burke's blog. Mail Merge in Libreoffice. Is a bug report I submitted about unclear documentation. A less developer oriented post today. I find there to be an incredible lack of tutorials on how to mail merge in LibreOffice. So I made my own. How to Mail Merge with LibreOffice. This tutorial assumes you have an xls or ods file with data you want to merge to a document. Step 0 if using Ubuntu – Ubuntu doesn’t include the full LibreOffice suite by default (see bug report. It includes a minimal version...
Tim Abell's blog: March 2014
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html
Why publish open source when you are commercial? Why open source your commercial projects? Forces you to decouple them from other internal systems. Encourages thinking in terms of reusable modules, which is better for internal reuse just as much as public reuse. Possibility of contributions to systems useful to your business by others. Easier reuse within your organisation (the public internet is a better search and sharing system than any internal systems). Worried about the brand? Of course I'm not say...
Tim Abell's blog: Why publish open source when you are commercial?
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-publish-open-source-when-you-are.html
Why publish open source when you are commercial? Why open source your commercial projects? Forces you to decouple them from other internal systems. Encourages thinking in terms of reusable modules, which is better for internal reuse just as much as public reuse. Possibility of contributions to systems useful to your business by others. Easier reuse within your organisation (the public internet is a better search and sharing system than any internal systems). Worried about the brand? Of course I'm not say...
Tim Abell's blog: May 2013
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html
Unfinished hyperlinks - add a todo. Just a quick post;. I'd like to promote a change to the habit of using '#' as the placeholder for a the url of a new hyperlink when you don't yet know where it'll link to: instead set the href to "#todo". This follows the / todo pattern recognised for unfinished code, and means you can now search your codebase for any links you forgot to finish off. A href="#" new link /a. Give all these links an alert with the following (cheers to unknown in the comments). PS This goe...
Tim Abell's blog: Converting kml to gpx with python
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2014/02/converting-kml-to-gpx-with-python.html
Converting kml to gpx with python. Today I wanted to geo-code some of my photos. I have an SLR digital camera (no gps of course), and an android phone. I recorded a track with My Tracks. From google on the phone. (Not entirely recommended but works). I then fired up digikam to run the geo-correlation and add lat-long to the exif of the files only to discover digikam doesn't know how to read kml. When 2014-01-25T18:00:13.955Z /when. Gx:coord -1.885348 50.769434 /gx:coord. This can be run as follows:.
Tim Abell's blog: April 2013
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html
Java checked and runtime exceptions and how to transition. As primarily a C# programmer I've never been sold on checked exceptions, mostly seeing them as an unnecessary nuisance forcing programmers to introduce reams of boilerplate. Blocks into their consuming code to propagate these exceptions up the stack. Whilst coding on https:/ github.com/timabell/FreeTTS. I was forced to deal with this personal demon. When calling a relevant method. When I've been in control of the API I've been tempted to always t...
Tim Abell's blog: December 2012
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html
Subversion to git - the pain retold. I've spent a week reminding myself why svn sucks. I've been using the freetts. Library for speech synth in the communication book. After a couple of aborted attempts I was reminded how the loosely defined structure of a svn repository and the over-generalization of tags and branches allows for a complete mess, which then is a pain to import cleanly. Terrible "feature", if you're using this feature then you're doing source control wrong. On the plus side, it is fantast...
Tim Abell's blog: February 2014
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2014_02_01_archive.html
Bash command line editing cheat sheet. Https:/ www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Readline-Interaction. Delete to start/end of word. Undo (i.e. ctrl-underscore). Paste (yank) deleted text. Paste older deleted text instead. Prefix with alt digit. 0-9) to do multiple, e.g. delete two words. Just a few notes I threw together for my own benefit. I finally got around to learning a bit more about editing commands on the Linux shell / terminal. Converting kml to gpx with python. Can open the new styl...
Tim Abell's blog: LibreOffice mail merge - "data source 'SOURCE' was not found"
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2015/01/libreoffice-mail-merge-data-source.html
LibreOffice mail merge - "data source 'SOURCE' was not found". So another year on, LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 (via Linux Mint 17.1) still has a dog's breakfast of a mail merge feature, hey ho, hopefully it might actually get fixed following the fork from OpenOffice and the change in contribution methods. So I've moved machines, copied my files across and for some reason my mail merge has soiled itself and now bleats "data source 'SOURCE' was not found". Well you have to change them all to just be sure. Sigh.
Tim Abell's blog: May 2014
http://timwise.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html
Throw vs throw ex vs wrap and throw in c-sharp. I've come across the throw vs throw ex 'debate' a few times, even as an interview question, and it's always bugged me because it's never something I've worried about in my own c# code. So here's a typical example of the throw vs throw ex thing: https:/ stackoverflow.com/questions/730250/is-there-a-difference-between-throw-and-throw-ex. I've just figured out why. Because in my own code, whenever I catch and re-throw I always. DivByZero(); / line 43. Obviousl...
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100 reasons I hate ssrs. A slightly tongue-in cheek hit-list of nasty things and vague hand-waving opinions on what makes microsoft's sql server reporting services (ssrs) such a pig to work with. I make no apologies for the colourful language, it's a representation of the emotional side of having to use this heap of crap. Http:/ www.allenkinsel.com/archive/2013/01/adventures-in-ssrs. Doesn't bind to a port like a normal fukcing service. Http server api (aka http.sys). Netsh http show urlacl`. Even though...
Timwise - Tim Abell's site
Welcome to timwise.co.uk. This site belongs to Tim Abell, a software developer and open source convert in the UK.
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