macaco-contacts

One of the things I required to re-write the macaco-contacts UI in clutter is a rounded corners rectangle, but there is not one!! Well, here is the code you need to implement to have a rounded rectangle rectangle that with the same methods and ... [More] properties that the normal rectangle has: import clutter from clutter import cogl   class RoundedRectangle(clutter.Actor): [...] [Less]

Documentation, documentation, documentation! this is what the Steve Ballmer of the open source (who ever it is) should say to the open source world. Before you keep reading I must warn you that this post might sound like a rant although it is not. PyGoocanvas, you failed me Lately I have been working on the UI [...]

Believe it or not during my working hours I write enterprise application for an energy company. Within the company I am one of the lucky guys that is currently developing a new application which uses a number of very cool libs and frameworks such as: ... [More] NHibernate using Fluent NHibernate for the mappings. Spring.Net NVelocity RhinoMocks etc.. One of the great things [...] [Less]

I’ve realized that I have not communicate much lately (I blame my job, having to do a 9 am – 1 am shift is crazy). So I have decided to give a very quick update. All my current work has been focused on the design of the UI, which is quite appropriate right now [...]

Well, it looks like a lot of people (I blame @sil for it) have read my tips and tricks to work with Desktopccouch so I have decided to do a second post about it with two “topics”. Put record revisited In my last post I mentioned that the put_record returned the id of the record that was [...]

An other few days an another UI improvement to macaco. For this past two days I have worked in yet another dialog used in macaco which was not exciting or different to those found in other applications, and on top of that it did not add too much value to the app. I’m talking about [...]

The main goal I had in my talk at FOSDEM was to try and pint point the different problems and tricks that are useful for developers wanting to use Desktopcouch. After the talk I realized that that was probably far too much information to be absorb in a 45 min talk. In order to compensate [...]

I have been recently improving the UI of macaco-contacts to ensure that is more usable. One of the things I had in my TODO list was to provide a decent dialog to choose an avatar for a contact. In my initial attempt a simply allowed the user to choose a file from the file system [...]

On an unpredicted sucession of events I have moved from helping in the cloakroom of FOSDEM to give a talk on Desktopcouch. In the talk I will focus on desktopcouch and will get into detail of how to use the lib, recipes and errors that will get you on track with the lib. I hope [...]

Now you know: But this year will be a bit different, last year I was more involve in the organization and was one of the volunteers helping over there. This year I will be going to a number of gnome talks, the GnomeDev room and I’l be helping in the Ubuntu table… Seems is [...]