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The best editor for IDL files?

Whenever I’ve edited my IDL files which defining components in Mozilla applications I never seen any outline in all editors I’m commonly using (Komodo Edit, Eclipse, NetBeans etc.) but than I’ve tried Geany (where I switch accidentally document type to C# language) and see what I’ve got :

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Returning array of components

As I worked on next version of Boogie I encountered a really big problem with returning of an array of instances of my components returned from another component’s method. Here is the introduction: I have component odIBoogieDatatypeProject and also component odIBoogieDbService where is method getProjects(aWhere) which should returns array of all projects which matching given [...]

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PHP support for Geany’s Classbuilder plugin

Update: Enrico Tröger just submitted the patch so from now this change is included in Geany sources. I started working on feature request #2972547. With a new notebook which I got in my new work (PHP developer in Pears Health Cyber) I started using Geany editor. I’m mainly using it for PHP development and because [...]

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Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook

Everyone who have Facebook account should read this: http://www.rocket.ly/home/2010/4/26/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook.html.

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Using XULRunner for (small) business

Here is a story: for a one customer of mine I created a simple site with contest – visitors can register and got chance to win a notebook (http://thinkpadedge.cz/soutez/ – but this is not important) … after a while I was asked if I can quickly (I’ve got a night for it) develop a tiny [...]

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Progress on tbTimer

I got together the basic functionality of tbTimer addon – currently is working counting of time spent on selected task and also UI is near to finishing. What now is missing the most is the view with the reports but I’m working on it (currently I’m collecting the test data ). As obviously here are [...]

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tbNotes 0.3.1

Hi, just before a while I’ve uploaded a new fixed version of tbNotes on the AMO. This release fixes bug that note without the target was not created. You can download it on well known address: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/14395.

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tbTimer

As I’m working with Thunderbird with Lightning addon I missing time-tracking functionality on Lightning’s tasks (previously I used SlimTimer but tasks are part of Lightning and I want to use only a single application for all). The addon should be tiny with clean and simple UI. I’ve created an initial mockup of what I want. Here is [...]

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tbNotes 0.3

On AMO I’ve just uploaded version 0.3. This version implements some feauters requested by many users: shortcut key for adding new notes (Ctrl+Shift+n) to single message can be attached more notes notes can be sended with message as an attachments user can change font family and size in the note editormessage header overlay redesigned added [...]

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Styling XUL elements

I allways have a troubles with styling XUL elements and without DOM Inspector it could be even worse. Today I’ve tried to style <button type=“menu“/> and it also was a hard work but result is pretty good: As you see I have two types of menu buttons – with label and without – the most [...]

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