macaco-contacts

This is the first video of hopefully plenty of my work during UDS at Dallas. Today, after some work regarding the desktopcouch start-up I have been working on getting macaco-contacts work together thanks to desktopcouch. The video show how both applications work together and have the same contacts. There is quite a lot of work [...]

I have focused a lot on writing a good DAL for macaco-contacts, specially working on the fact that desktop-couch does not provide and ad-hoc query system. First things first, I am not trying to write an ORM for desktop-couch at the moment (I do mean I will not try to do so), so far the [...]

Following my series of algorithm and python, today I’ll be looking at the implementation of a Josephus style election. The problem A Josephus election can be described as the process of selecting a lider from a group of N person by doing the following: All contestants for a linked circle A value M is chosen that will be used [...]

Recently I’ve been practicing my algorithm using python quite a lot, because of that, I have decide to do a serious of posts about different “fun” algorithm problems and their implementation using vanilla python. This is the first post of the series: ... [More] The problem Given a collection of points that range from 0-(N-1) a connectivity algorithm should [...] [Less]

I have writing a big number of unit tests for the different classes that take part in the storage of the different domain objects. During the unit test I have been writing code of the following type: def testAdd(self): """ Tests the add method and ensures that a person is [...]

Currently desktopcouch is affected by a bug in couchdb-python that comes from httplib2 version 0.5. The bug makes the following code to raise a Conflict exception when it should not: test_data = { '_id': '6b8189fd34e844f89604c101730e3473', 'name' : 'Manuel', 'surname': ' de la Pena', 'record_type':'http://example.com' [...]

I want to us this post two give two great news: GTK UI will be available After the major refactoring I have performed, the GTK UI will be available at the same time as the Qt based one. I have always wanted to provide at least both UI because I do understand that Gnome user do not [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been having a number of problems regarding the “laziness of my contacts retrieval, to be precise, the way I have been de-serializing the companies from couchdb. The problems I have been having reside in the fact that the following object can have an infinite number of [...]

In my last post I explained how a I was performing the de-serialization of my objects from couchdb to a dictionary that could be used to fill the data of the object. I f you remember I used the map/reduce pattern in an special way in which I was not returning an scalar value but [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been doing some serious work with the base code of the application. One of my main goals in the past week (maybe next week as well) has been to try an define the different records I want to use. I do not like to define [...]