macaco-contacts

Lost of work has been done in macaco-contacts. Most of it has been focused on improving the code base in two different ways: Making code more Pythonic. Making code cleaner and simpler for other developers to dive into it. Making code more pythonic I’ve always being a C++ (Qt guy ) and Java/C# developers. Because of my background [...]

Since I read the comment from Statik in the post I talked about the port to CouchDb of macaco-contacts I have been working to try and align by serialization to that proposed by the desktopcouch project in freedesktop.org. I really believe that I should be making the effort to try and work with their project [...]

I recently talked about one of my favorite features in macaco-contacts. Companies is clearly one of those things I have added in the application that I consider to improve Apples’ address book. But being able to store Companies with its representatives is not good if you do not add a nice UI. I have done some [...]

After some serious work I have finally managed to port the core code to use CouchDB as its storage back-end rather than SQLite + SQLAlchemy. Although the process has not been strictly complicated (I’ve dealt with worst things in SharePoint for example), I have been certainly stuck with some issues. The design of the overall solution [...]

I finally found the time to generate all the different code documentation of all the software that has been written so far. As usual you can find the documentation in the web-page of the project. There might be (will be) some spelling errors or markup errors. Please if you find any use launch pad to [...]

Seems Nokia have released official Python-Qt bindings, called PySide, which are LGPL’d. Apparently Nokie tried to talk with RiverBank regarding PyQt but they could not reach any agreement. Currently I do not believe that PySide is yet ready to be used with macaco-contacts but nevertheless I believe that in the future I’ll link to this [...]

I have been not working to much in macaco-contacts lately because I was on holidays. Nevertheless I started working on it as soon as I got back from Mallorca. After some days on it I have managed to port most of the code to use CouchDb and the application can know run using it. Although [...]