{"id":809,"date":"2004-01-13T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2004-01-13T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T00:33:58","slug":"hot-geek-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Hot geek news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest developer build of OOo is <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.stardiv.de\/\/pub\/OpenOffice.org\/developer\/680_m20\/\" title=\"this is the ftp directory\">slithering out<\/a>: it has, I hope, integrated python scripting, along with a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/development.openoffice.org\/releases\/680_m20_snapshot.html\" title=\"a huge list\">bug fixes<\/a> that I don&#8217; t understand. I have merely downloaded it, and not played with it at all, since I use the experimental version only on the laptop. On the same day <a href=\"ftp:\/\/docs-pdf.sun.com\/817-1826\/817-1826.pdf\" title=\"The English translation\">a proper  manual <\/a>for OOo\/Star Basic (about three years late) has just gone up on Sun&#8217;s web site. This is available in an absurd number of human languages. As far as I am concerned, there is only one truly hideous wart left on the program, and that&#8217;s the abysmal interface to the find\/replace dialogue.<\/p>\n\n<p>Otherwise, the program now does what a writer needs, and probably enough of what larger and more important markets need to keep thriving. Normal frivolity will be resumed as soon as possible<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest developer build of OOo is slithering out: it has, I hope, integrated python scripting, along with a number of bug fixes that I don&#8217; t understand. I have merely downloaded it, and not played with it at all, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}