Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

"I've been taking a few Firefox plug-ins for granted, so here's a little nod to some excellent add-ons which have made my life easier *nods*. The plug-ins I'm talking about are Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar and Dummy Lipsum."

Since the new playlist for Amarok 2 is basically built using a QGraphicsView, we can do some realy interesting stuff with it. One of the things I have been thinking about was a way to group tracks from the same albums together to take up less space and avoid having the same cover shown over and over again.

"The example covered with this tutorial is a toolbar with just one feature: Google Search! And lets call it: GoogBar! "

"A new piece of software has come to my attention today, a Mozilla project called WebRunner that aims to provide an easy way to create site-specific browsers (SSBs). The project is basically an extension on the XULRunner software, which itself is standalone version of the XUL engine that underpins the big Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Seamonkey)..."

I have managed to check in from my hotel room in Columbus, OH. If you're not here, you're missing out!

Novell's Linux business has soared 243 percent since last November when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft.

As of today I’m stepping down from TheOpenCD development, of which for the last eighteen months I’ve been the sole developer and general caretaker for the project. It’s not all bad news though - I’m leaving the project to pursue my own open source disc, which I believe will resolve the issues I’ve experienced in my time at the helm1.