{"id":1269,"date":"2010-10-02T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T00:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2010-10-03T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T17:13:55","slug":"weekly-links-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/weekly-links-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2010\/oct\/01\/data-journalism-how-to-guide\">How to be a data journalist | News | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/statistics\">statistics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isgtw.org\/?pid=1002766\">New ISO standard for special math functions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">A good example of how ISO fails to encourage harmonized standards.  These function definitions would be perfect for reusing in a variety of other standards, or at least for harmonizing with other standards that also define scientific functions, like ISO\/IEC 29500 and ODF 1.2&#8217;s OpenFormula.  But even peer standards professionals in other ISO committees and liaisons are not given free access to these standards.  We would need to pay over $100 for the privilege of volunteering to write better ISO standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/standards\">standards<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkovation.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/open-office-well-and-truly-forked\/#more-217\">Gary Barnett&#8217;s Blog \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Open Office : Well and truly forked<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;I\u2019d take all the source code for OpenOffice and print it out onto paper. Then I\u2019d erase it from the repository. I\u2019d store the paper print-outs at the top of a tower, surrounded by an alligator filled swamp, fifty miles from the development lab.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the developers can re-use that old code, I\u2019ve no problem at all \u2013 It\u2019s just got to be worth the effort of walking to the swamp, wading through the murky waters, wrastling the \u2018gators, climbing the tower and copying the source out by hand. If they\u2019re not willing to do that, then that code just isn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Next I\u2019d go way back to basics \u2013 take something like CKEditor as my base, then look at what I\u2019d need to do to make it produce ODF.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.itaapy.com\/blog\/internationalisation-de-documents-odf\">Le blog de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe d&#8217;Itaapy. &#8211; Internationalisation de documents ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;La librairie iTools, librairie sous licence GPL, d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e par l&#8217;\u00e9quipe d&#8217;Itaapy, offre de nombreux outils permettant de faciliter l&#8217;internationalisation.<br \/>\nGr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces outils, il est possible de traduire tr\u00e8s rapidement un document ODF (ODT\/ODS\/ODP). Le principe est simple et tient en 3 \u00e9tapes !&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/openoffice.exblog.jp\/11317007\">OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format Promotion Group founded<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;On September 14th foundation of OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format Promotion Group (ODPG) was announced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. 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