My first conference presentation with Symphony
Category NoneThis morning on a whim, I started installing Symphony at 8:22, knowing full well I was delivering a session at 8:30. Well the Symphony install finished in time, and as I had created the presentation in the Notes 8 Presentation editor and edited it in OpenOffice Impress, it loaded and ran just fine in Symphony. Little wonder that I wanted to do this for John Head's session that I was repeating here in London - about the productivity editors and OpenOffice automation. Tomorrow during the "Best of CU" I'll also show off Ben Langhinrich's new efforts with OpenSesame.
Symphony installed fine, ran fine, and only has a few little curiosities so far. One of these is the icon, which appears to be a Notes 7 icon - a little hard to look at with the nice Notes 8 icon when you alt-tab. Carl has pointed out a longstanding bug in OO and Symphony, though I've not worked out why anyone would do what he describes, other than to force a crash. I did have a little trouble running a demo, but as it turns out I had all three OO derivatives open at the same time..probably not a great idea when demoing OO automation.
Overall, the user experience was pretty good, and attendees seemed pleased at the use of Symphony. I will be happy when the mystical "you can see where this is going" comments turn into what really will happen - that IBM's contribution to OpenOffice.org will result in a new improved Symphony and embedded editors in Notes 8.
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Most people will never have such a spreadsheet, but hidden away in a large enterprise will be some person with a huge spreadsheet model, bigger than you can imagine, using 256 sheets, thousands of cells on each sheet. Honestly those people exist, and if the spreadsheet can't manage memory, or recalc quick enough, these people will rip your eyes out.
Carl
Posted by Carl Tyler At 07:15:08 AM On 09/20/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Ben Langhinrichs At 07:54:32 AM On 09/20/2007 | - Website - |