Produce Documentation Using Doxygen

Creating documentation is a boring task for developers. They tends to write codes rather than documentations. Lack of documentations is one reason why applications become harder to maintain in the future because the writer of the code often doesn't have a coding standard guide which is understandable by other writers.

Carla Schroder has written a nice article about a tool which can help developers to create documentation automatically. It's called Doxygen and of course, it's open source. It's included in almost every Linux distribution, so you won't have problem finding it. It has wide range of programming language support, including C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.

Even with a minimal efforts, you can create a nice web-based documentation or even in UNIX manual page format. Have a look on Carla's article or Doxgen's article

New OOo Writer Guide

Ihsan Faisal has finished writing translations for some OOo Writer guide from OOoAuthors. He has sent the file for me and i have just finished uploading the documents on Indonesian Documentation Project. It's a replacement for the old documents that were made for OOo 1.x. This one is for 2.x. I hope it could help you using OOo better.

Meanwhile, we are progressing with the Indonesian Native Lang project. It has reached almost 50% of the translations. Maybe you are all wondering, why did it take so long to finish the project? Well, OOo evolves, so many translations are changed each release and this would change the previous translations, so rework must be done. Another reason is that most of the members is a full-time employee on their organization or company, meaning that they do this project on their free time. So forgive us for bringing Indonesian version of OOo