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Next release of tbNotes

In last few days I got several emails with questions or bug-reports about current release of tbNotes (version 0.2.1) and I promised to realease the next version last night but I’m still not finished. There are still several bugs on which I’m working on so be patient please. I hope that I finish it today.

tbNotes 0.2

This morning I released another version of tbNotes. This version brings possibility of adding links to the single notes and also some bug fixies. You can download it from addons.mozilla.org.

tbNotes 0.1.5

Before a while I’ve uploaded new version of tbNotes to the AMO (http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/14395). The main new features including: support for Thunderbird 3.0b4 new notes view (see screenshots) completely rewritten database background preferences dialog

tbNotes 0.1.5 comming soon

Here is only a list of already finished changes and one screenshot from upcomming tbNotes version: updated for Thunderbird 3.0b4 first implementation of message header view first implementation of the all notes view added new toolbar button

Customizing Thunderbird’s message header view

As I worked on tbNotes extension I needed to add item to the message header view (see the picture). I didn’t found any usefull informations on MDC or Google so I look into the Thunderbird‘s sources (msgHdrViewOverlay.js) file and there I founded it. Solution is simple: Code placed in overlays.xul: <!– Message header view overlay [...]

MySQL Trick: GROUP_CONCAT

Today I discovered and firstly used MySQL aggregate function GROUP_CONCAT and it’s really usefull in same cases. Consider structure database like this: ┌───────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐ │ eshop_items │ │ eshop_items_to_genres │ ├───────────────────────────────┤ ├───────────────────────┤ │ * ID [INTEGER] |—-| item_ID [INTEGER] │ │ title [VARCHAR] │ │ genre_ID [INTEGER] |—-┐ │ image [VARCHAR] │ └───────────────────────┘ | │ [...]

News on CsvViewer

Because there wasn’t any message about CSVViewer for a long time here are some news: I’ve already finished the first version of handler (source) for text/csv mime type (which shows CSV document as a HTML page with table – see attached screenshot). This parser is tested on several files where the largest is about ~600 [...]

tbNotes 0.1.1

Only screen with progress:

tbNotes

A while ago I wrote about new Thunderbird notes extension and yesterday I started working on it. The list of requsted features were changed lightly – the main difference is that there is no support for Google Notebook because Google closed this service recently. But the rest is nearly same as before: creating/editing/deleting notes – [...]

MDC

Wow, I’ve just currently edited my first page on MDC – I updated page Add Option to Context Menu (in Thunderbird section) . I hope that all I wrote is correct… but still – even my addition is very short I’m very proud of my self .