First of all, happy new year to everybody ! I’d like to talk a bit about the donations one can make to the Claws Mail project which I’m part of since approximately 12 years now, and tell a tale of something that luckily happened only once. There are three kinds of donations possible for the Claws…
2014/01/01 Continue reading...-
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iReport: adding QRCode to Jasper reports the easy way
After testing various complicated solutions to embed a QR Code into iReport Jasper reports, the easiest way I’ve found is this: 1) Put ZXing’s Core and JavaSE jars in the classpath (using Tools/Options/Classpath if compiling locally, or the classpath property if using Ant and net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask) ZXing Core jar ZXing JavaSE jar 2) Add an image…
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How to add the ATV4 orbit data to Stellarium
(English version – see also French version) ESA’s ATV-4 Albert Einstein was successfully launched yesterday and is now orbiting Earth for nine days prior to its automated rendez-vous with the International Space Station. As for each satellite, it has TLE (Two-Line element) data publically available and it can be downloaded from celestrak.com for example…
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T-shirts and other things for wannabe astronauts
I prepared, as a surprise for my space-fan child Paul, a T-shirt featuring the ISS – International Space Station. While I was at it, I took a bit more time and decided to make more, maybe some people will like it. So there are various ISS T-shirts, some Soyuz-based T-shirts, and some gadgets. I made…
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Claws Mail’s Fancy HTML rendering plugin on Windows
Finally, after adding four packages and a huge build-fix patch, I’ve been able to build Webkit inside our cross-building infrastructure. That made Fancy buildable and allows for a better, more stable HTML rendering than with the old Gtkhtml2Viewer plugin. You can download and test it there: claws-mail-3.9.0cvs125pkg35.exe. Don’t forget to unload GtkHTML2 and load Fancy…
2013/03/14 Continue reading...
