Older blog entries for jmcnamara (starting at number 1)

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

I am updating the documentation in preparation for version 0.30 which will include access to formulas and functions. The target release date is the 28th of February.

The documentation, testing and distro preparation take at least half the development time of each new release.

Work (the most important thing is)

Went to the UK for a course on VoIP. "All your IP traffics are belong to us."

If it had been a week later I could have made it to London.pm to hear Damian Conway's talk.

Life (and how to live it)

Spent an evening in Oxford. The colleges were already closed. It is a nice town. Not as pretty as Urbino but more realistic. Ate a pizza at Quod.

16 Feb 2001 (updated 16 Feb 2001 at 20:53 UTC) »
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

Received a report of a subtle bug. The format string '00000' should pad leading zeros to a zip code in Excel but nothing was happening. It turned out that '00000' was matching as a number and evaluating to zero. Nice.

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!