Day: December 26, 2006

Normal people in the Western hemisphere pay a visit to their grandparents, family and other relatives these days.

There are days that Tinne arranged my agenda in such a way that, indeed, I’m doing those visits. However, I came home this evening and noticed that I don’t have such a visit-people-evening today. Cool!

So I decided I should hack a little bit on tinymail, and while doing that write some more documentation. What I worked on is actually cool, hard and very important, but most people who read this probably don’t give a fuck. So I’ll be brief about it for a change. I fixed creating and sending multipart E-mails (you know, multipart/alternative with text/plain and text/html mime parts, yadi yada). Here’s a demo.

Suddenly all the application development tutorials that I wanted to write where finished. Exactly one week after I forced myself to write these tutorials by blogging about how happy I would be if I would write them (oh the irony).

They can use a lot improvements. I’m not a native English speaker (let alone writer), so they are loaded with stupid spelling mistakes. Yadi yada. Here, go get them:

• The API reference manual of tinymail
• How to implement a type
• How to implement a type by inheriting from an existing one
• How to override a virtual method after inheriting
• Implementing an account store
• Implementing a platform factory
• Implementing a device type
• Showing accounts
  • In a GtkComboBox
• Showing folder stores
  • Recursively in a GtkTreeView
  • Without queries
  • With queries
• Showing a list of headers of a folder
  • Just showing them, the hello world of headers
  • In a GtkTreeView
• Showing a message after selecting a header
  • Using the default message view components
    • Normal
    • In a window
  • Implementing your own message view
  • Implementing your own mime part view
• Creating a message
  • A normal message
  • A HTML message
  • A multipart message
• Sending a message
  • Using the default send queues
  • Implementing your own send queue

Raphael’s Christmas present now has consequences. Cause of his present I decided to finally switch from using Gaim to Gossip for my instant messaging needs. Because I’m into keeping logs around, I decided to write a small piece of shit Perl script that tries to convert the Gaim log file format (clumsy HTML) to Gossip’s (gossip-log.xsl).

You can get it here.

Feel free to improve this if you are into torturing yourself with Perl during the New Year- and Christmas holiday period.