StarOffice/OpenOffice.org File Viewer
My MSc dissertation was to design and build a file viewer
for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org files. The resulting viewer
was written in Java and allows any StarOffice word processing
documents or spreadsheets to be viewed in your web browser.
To use the viewer simply download the SOView.jar file (51KB) using the link to the right. Then open/double-click this file and select the StarOffice/Openoffice.org file that you wish to view. If you have any problems please consult the help file or send me an email
All files for the StarOffice v6.0+ and OpenOffice packages use a XML file format, and the viewer uses the SAX API to parse these XML files and create the HTML representation of the document that is rendered in your web browser.
I have recently upgraded to J2SE5.0 and have found that a little adjustment was necessary for the application to work properly. The file selection window would pop up but nothing else happenned. I've fixed this but have not yet tested it for J2SE1.4, but will put it up when it's been tested.
Waterhouse-Music.co.uk
My latest project was for
Celia Waterhouse, providing her with a site
advertising her music teaching and the Kodály Approach that she uses in her lessons.
As part of her website package, Celia was also provided with hosting services and two virus checked email
addresses for her site. Both of these services are provided in conjunction with Mailcustodian.
The website uses the CMSmadesimple content management system, which allows her to log on
to the Admin section and update the content of the site herself, without her knowing any
HTML. To view this site either click on the thumbnail picture or follow the link provided here.
Fancy a challenge?
My most recent Java project was to build an application to create the
Penitentia Manuscript for Dr. Gordon Rugg of Keele University. The brief was to
take plain text and encode it into a series of symbols, as an exercise in alternative
manuscript generation and calligraphy. Dr Rugg is known throughout the manuscript community
for his recent work on the Voynich Manuscript.
If you are feeling exceptionally brainy then please go and visit his Open University site and have a go at cracking the code. There's only 16 pages of manuscript to decode so it shouldn't take you too long. If your brain doesn't quite feel up to it at the moment then go and have a look anyway and marvel at the nice shapes and colours!
I wonder if it will feature at all
in this year's Research and Scholarship MSc module?
