Changing perspectives

A rising tide lifts all boats. 

 

Rob Weir - From ODF pre-1.2 to ODF 1.2 from Newwws on Vimeo.

ODF Document Icons - as proposed to OpenOffice.org ESC March 2009

ODF Document Icons - proposed to OASIS - used by OO.o and Staroffice.

The full blog entry - GullFOSS Unified odf icons

At least that is what I take away as the abbreviated version of the argument.

Seems I’ve read the term ’times are changing’’ or something similar while reading the email traffic about this icon issue and branding..yes they are.

Looking at the first screen in the follwoing Impress file one would think, OH Yeah change those Icons – it means quite a bit.

Do we really care that much about icons?

Then again if you looked at the other screens – the MS Windows 7 file manager has indeed changed things. Kind of hard to miss the file types – no matter what the icon, when there is an icon displayed anyways.

One pass please

Requirements come in all forms and styles - a typical style for a business report is for the consumer of the report to give you a mock up of the report. (usually created with their word processor)

A requirement passed to me in the form of a Writer file of course:


**********************************************************************************

History of Services Summary

as of 10/05/2007 (date the report was created)

Name: Registry:

Therapist:

Date of services:

Date: Status: Value:

08/12/2007 No Show $35

08/19/2007 Patient Canceled $0.0

08/26/2007 Performed $35

09/03/2007 Performed $35

09/10/2007 Performed $35

09/17/2007 Therapist Canceled $0.0

09/24/2007 Performed $35

09/30/2007 Performed $35

______

Total: $210

______________________________________________________________________________

Payment History

Name: Registry:

as of 10/05/2007

Payments Received on: Amount:

08/26/2007-13:30:22 $35

09/03/2007-13:34:53 $35

09/07/2007-11:12:33 $35

09/10/2007-13:32:41 $35

09/24/2007-13:37:12 $10

09/30/2007-13:29:34 $55

_____

Total Payments: $205

______________________________________________________________________________

Balance Summary

total services amount: $210 - total payments: $205 = -$5

______________________________________________________________________________

End of History of Services Summary

This report is built using the patient ID and all sessions scheduled, in the top half, and all payments made, in the bottom, and up to a specified date (highlighted) usually the date the query is run. The amounts are added. Then a balance is calculated. Patient and date information are repeated to simplify lecture (maybe this gets to be along list).

**********************************************************************************


Now that is a mock up if ever you've seen one.

First thing that pops into one's head upon looking at this with regards to using the Sun Report Builder extension for OpenOffice.org is that there are two separate detail sections in that single report mockup.


Can we do that?

Base form wizard colors - Why?

Now how come; the control background and form background color choices, available in the New Form Wizard, do not match any colors available with the default installation?

Chandler does mail? Well, DUH!

OK - I have Thunderbird and Gmail...so that works with Chandler, right?

Another way to think

Hyponyms of noun vista ( From )

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn?cmd=wn&word=vista

Sense 1

view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama -- (the visual percept of a region; ``the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views'' )


* background, ground -- (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; ``he posed her against a background of rolling hills'' )

* coast -- (the area within view; ``the coast is clear'' )

* exposure -- (aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; ``the studio had a northern exposure'' )

* foreground -- (the part of a scene that is near the viewer)

* glimpse -- (a brief or incomplete view; ``from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake'' )

* middle distance -- (the part of a scene between the foreground and the background)

* side view -- (a view from the side of something)

* tableau -- (any dramatic scene)

Kick off

Monday Sep 1, 2008

Vista

( Cambridge Dict. )

- http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=88472&dict=CALD

noun [C]

1 LITERARY a view, especially a splendid view from a high position:

After a hard climb, we were rewarded by a picture-postcard vista of rolling hills under a deep blue summer sky.


2 a possible future action or event that you can imagine:

As leader, he opened up exciting vistas of global co-operation.