macaco-contacts

One of my “projects” for the xmas vacations has been to port Desktopcouch to Windows. I have twothree main reasons for this: I want to be able to sync my data between my Windows machine (mainly my machine at the office) and my Linux machines (all the others) I want to be able to make my different [...]

Recently I have been working with Django and I wanted a simple way to execute a number of server side methods. As you can imaging from the title, I wanted to use XML-RPC from javascript to be able to execute the methods. If you google “django xml-rpc” the first page that will appear is this. After [...]

So, this is yet another kinda personal blog post so that people can know me a little bit better. After about 10 years without skiing (Last time I went was when I was 16), I finally got the chance to go with a group of friends. To be honest I was not sure if I [...]

This image perfectly summarizes how I feel every time I have to move from coding in python (home) to C# (office and home). Dynamic typing is something I greatly appreciate and I hate the huge redundancy found in C# (although you can work around it using var up to some extend (type inference)). PS: Currently I have [...]

What is an ODM? I some of you might know I really do not like writing common applications (I do not hate them, but I’m better at writing other things), that is, I prefer to write well design libraries that make my coding life an others better. This is at the same time a blessing and [...]

I usually follow I big number of people on the internet, that is I have added there blogs of webpage in my Google reader or I visit their pages with a certain frequency. One of the things I like from a number of the blog and pages I visit is that their writers/owner usually add personal [...]

Continuing with my work on making the use of desktopcouch nicer to not that advance developers (or advance developers that cannot take the time) I have been spending some time in thinking how to provide a nice API/interface to manage groups. Group definition On one hand, a group is viewed like a directory in the file system [...]

Version 0.31 of macaco-contacts “harmony” is available. You can download the .deb package from my PPA. Installation The current release is dependent of my current developing branch of desktopcouch in which avatars have been added. In order to be able ... [More] to us it you have to do: bzr branch lp:~mandel/desktopcouch/contacts-avatar desktopcouch Add the new path to the new branch [...] [Less]

I have been working as hard/much as I can (3/4 hours the days I can) to be able to deliver something tangible which you guys can use and hopefully criticize. You can find what I have done this week at my PPA There a number of things you must know before you try to run the software: The [...]

Last week I was one of the afortunate bastards to be sponsored to go to UDS, and it was a great eperience. On one hand I had the chance to meet the people behind desktopcouch which was great, specially when I have been such a pain in the ass for them. On the other hand [...]