I’m not one to jump on bandwagons just because they’re rolling by (even with great companions), but I started using Python in one of my projects and I’ve got to say that I’m pretty happy with it. I think their documentation leaves something to be desired but overall the language is pretty intuitive and it [...]
Tagged code, PythonI submitted Threadbubble to AMO tonight. I wanted to work out the bugs and get it in a stable state before I put it on there and I think it’s reached that point. Hosting it on AMO will prevent potential security issues, and it has the side benefit of providing automatic updates. The add-on is [...]
Tagged AMO, code, ThreadBubble, ThunderbirdThis is probably well documented, but it’s a good reminder anyway. If you’ve got a column in MySQL that is textual (like a varchar), you need to make sure MySQL sees the data going into it as a string. Here’s an example I stumbled across today when I left out some quotation marks – `averagerating` [...]
Tagged code, MySQLWhen writing an extension for Thunderbird, it’s a common goal to be able to tell when new mail has arrived. In versions of Thunderbird before 2.0, the accepted practice was to get a pointer to the nsiMsgMailSession and add a listener that got called when a new mail event happened. The code would look something [...]
Tagged add-ons, code, ThunderbirdThis release fixes an annoying bug that caused messages to disappear from the message list (even though they were still in the folder). In previous versions, if there was a thread with 2 messages in it, and you deleted or moved the root message, the other would disappear from the display. If you clicked on [...]
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