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The art of drawing border lines
I spent this past week on investigating a collection of various problems surrounding how Calc draws cell borders. The problem is very hard to define and can become very subjective depending on who you...
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Update on border lines
Just a quick update to my last post on getting Calc’s border line situation sorted out. As of last post, the border lines were pretty in good shape as far as printing to paper, but it was still less...
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Slides for my talk at LibreOffice conference in Bern
I’d like to share the slides I used for my talk at LibreOffice Conference 2014 in Bern, Switzerland. During my talk, I hinted that the number of unit tests for Calc have dramatically increased during...
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OpenCL test documents for Calc
Some of you have asked me previously whether or not we can share any test documents to demonstrate Calc’s new OpenCL-based formula engine. Thanks to AMD, we can now make available 3 test documents...
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Seattle LibreFest
Today I’d like to talk about the LibreOffice Hackfest (LibreFest) that we did in Seattle on October 26th. This hackfest happens to be the very first hackfest event that I have participated outside of...
View ArticleLast day
Today is my last day with Collabora, and also my last day as a full-time engineer working on the LibreOffice (and formerly OpenOffice.org) code base. It’s been 8 long years of adventure. Lots of things...
View Articlemdds 0.12.0 is now out
I’m happy to announce that mdds 0.12.0 is now out. You can download it from the project’s download page https://code.google.com/p/multidimalgorithm/wiki/Downloads The highlight of this release is...
View ArticleIxion 0.9.0 is out
After a somewhat long hiatus, I’m very happy to announce that the version 0.9.0 of the Ixion library has just been released. You can download the source package from the project’s download page. The...
View ArticleOrcus 0.7.1 is out
After more than a year since the release of 0.7.0, I’m once again very happy to announce that the version 0.7.1 of the Orcus library is now available for download. You can download the package from the...
View ArticleIxion 0.9.1 and its move to GitLab
Today I have two announcements to make. First, the version 0.9.1 of the Ixion library is now available. You can download the 0.9.1 source package from the project’s main page. This is purely a...
View Articlemdds 0.12.1
I’m happy to announce that mdds 0.12.1 is now out. You can download it from the project’s README page. There are primarily two major changes from the previous release of 0.12.0 as explained below....
View Articlemdds 1.0.0
A new version of mdds is out, and this time, we’ve decided to bump up the version to 1.0.0. As always, you can download it from the project’s main page. Here is the highlight of this release. First...
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LibreOffice mini-Conference 2016 in Osaka
Night view in Osaka, overlooking the Metropolitan Expressway. Keynote First off, let me just say that it was such an honor and pleasure to have had the opportunity to present a keynote at the...
View Articlemdds 1.1.0
I’m pleased to announce the availability of mdds 1.1.0. As always, the source package can be downloaded from the project’s home page. This release includes the addition of 2 new data structures –...
View ArticleIxion 0.11.0
Version 0.11.0 of the Ixion library has been just released. You can download it from the project’s home page. Here is the full list of changes since 0.9.1. C++11 is a hard requirement. implement R1C1...
View ArticleOrcus 0.11.0
I’m very pleased to announce that version 0.11.0 of the orcus library is officially out in the wild! You can download the latest source package from the project’s home page. Lots of changes went into...
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LibreOffice Development Talk at Triangle C++ Developer’s Group
It was a pleasure to have been given an opportunity to talk about LibreOffice development the other day at the Triangle C++ Developer’s Group. Looking back, what we went through was a mixture of...
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Performance benchmark on mdds R-tree
I’d like to share the results of the quick benchmark tests I’ve done to measure the performance of the R-tree implementation included in the mdds library since 1.4.0. Brief overview on R-tree R-tree is...
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Benchmark results on mdds multi_type_vector
In this post, I’m going to share the results of some benchmark testing I have done on multi_type_vector, which is included in the mdds library. The benchmark was done to measure the impact of the...
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