Hi,
Due to issues in the auto-updater, the release of Association Subscribers Manager is delayed at least until tomorrow. Stay tuned for more informations.
Arnaud Dupuis
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Monday 8 February 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Monday 8 February 2010, 11:18 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
Due to issues in the auto-updater, the release of Association Subscribers Manager is delayed at least until tomorrow. Stay tuned for more informations.
Arnaud Dupuis
Friday 29 January 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 29 January 2010, 07:34 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
Today I will continue to unveil Association Subscribers Manager new features. Actually it is not really a new feature, it is more an improvement.
Anyway, settings was sure a hard part in previous version of Association Subscribers Manager, until now ! Started with the 3.1 version, ladies and gentlemen, behold the new simplicity of the settings system ! Basically settings have been splitted in two : association settings and application ones. They are both accessible through the toolbar.
The idea is to make users life more simple by presenting only relevant informations. What I mean is : when you want to add a new activity with new fees, you do not really care about the locales of the application. So even if the amount of options have not decrease (actually, with custom fields, it increased) the settings system is more easy to use. Mainly because there is now only 3 or 4 tabs of settings instead of 8 !
That is certainly not the killing feature of the 3.1 version of Association Subscribers Manager but it sure will make life easier for many people. Here is some screenshots of the new settings organisation :
Application settings:
(please note that in those screenshots Association Subscribers Manager was not compiled with the updater support so the "Updates" tab is missing).
Association settings:
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis
Monday 25 January 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Monday 25 January 2010, 08:34 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
The first beta version of Association Subscribers Manager version 3.1 have just been released ! Has usual, you can find files and bug tracker/feature requests tracker at :
You can download packages and installer at :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/assuma/files/
You can report bugs and ask for new features at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=211536
This version features many changes and the most important are:
For the moment only the source packages is available, windows and GNU/Linux installers will comes later. As usual, this beta version's translation and documentation are not up-to-date, they will be in the stable release 2 weeks from now.
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis & the Association Subscribers Manager team.
Sunday 24 January 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 24 January 2010, 14:00 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
First of all, happy birthday blog ! This is the 100th post of this blog ! Woohoo ! Ok then if it's a birthday I have to come with something big and nice... Let's say custom fields in Association Subscribers Manager !
The first beta version of Association Subscribers Manager v3.1 will be out in few hours and will have a long requested feature : custom fields. The principle is that there is a bunch of pre-defined fields in Association Subscribers Manager and they cover a large scale of classical associations/clubs needs, but they certainly cannot covers for all the needs of every users. So for this users, it is now possible to add user defined fields and to use them like any other fields in Association Subscribers Manager.
Custom fields can be of many types:
Check this video for an introduction:
Until the official release of Association Subscribers Manager, I will feed you with videos and screenshots of the new features of the 3.1 version.
Arnaud Dupuis
Saturday 23 January 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 23 January 2010, 00:36 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
I was ask today if I have plan to better integrate Association Subscribers Manager with KDE. Since the answer can be of interest for other people that the person who asked me, I will (also) answer here.
First, Association Subscribers Manager is designed and developed to be multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, MS windows and Apple's Mac OS X). On some of the supported platforms, KDE is not really widely installed. And amongst the target audience of Association Subscribers Manager there are people who are far from being geeks. Those are facts.
In the other hand, I am a firm supporter of KDE, I use it everyday both at home and at work and I would like to integrate Association Subscribers Manager a lot more into KDE.
So, to answer the question : I will do it and make it possible to enable at compile time. At least until I made a clear evaluation of KDE on windows and mac os X (since I have no windows nor mac boxes, I am not friendly with those platforms and the state of KDE on them).
But considering the road things are taking it is likely that Association Subscribers Manager will get a better KDE integration before it's 3.3 release...
Arnaud Dupuis
Tuesday 19 January 2010
By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 19 January 2010, 00:39 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
First things comes first : happy new year ! I wish you all the best for this 2010 year (a bit late... as usual).
Then, after a quick come back to my Perl modules, I now am back to Association Subscribers Manager ! Things have changed a lot on this side. First, the settings' user interface was to complicated so it have been split in two : association's settings and application settings. During this part of the work Association Subscribers Manager got a highly requested feature : the custom fields.
Custom fields are user defined input fields. This feature, as well with the settings part are all implemented and I now only need to fix some remaining bugs before the release. This "release" thing leads me to another point : the initial release plan was out of scale. Current changes are already lots of changes and I would like to not confuse Association Subscribers Manager's users with to many changes. And, by the way, it took me so much time to get all those working that the next release will occur next year if I keep waiting for the perfect finished program ! So the 3.1 release will feature 2 main things/changes :
I will post again about this specific feature (custom fields) soon.
Arnaud Dupuis
Sunday 13 December 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 13 December 2009, 23:56 - Perl modules
Hi,
After many months (years...) Geo::Coder::GoogleMaps have a new release ! The original company which paid me to develop this module have bankrupted so I resumed the work on this module on my free time. It took some time...
This version introduce the new Geo::Coder::GoogleMaps::Response object, fix for the user agent, documentation, a better test suite and many improvements. It also brings a major change in the API which will require you to update your scripts. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the changes since the 0.2 version (well... 0.3, 0.3.1 and 0.3.2 were kind of tests... and thanks to Slaven Rezic and RT it's now stable) :
Wednesday 9 December 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Wednesday 9 December 2009, 23:34 - Perl modules
Hi,
I am resuming the work I did more than one year ago on some of my Perl modules. I don't know why but I got tired of Perl coding (certainly because I did a lot of Perl in my professional life). But in holidays, before or after snowboarding, Perl looks fun again ! After updating my Games::CroqueMonsters module, I resumed the work on Geo::Coder::GoogleMaps.
I looked at the CPAN's RT, noted bugs and feature requests and start working again on this module. Then I though that it would be nice to have a code repository for this work. Being a Sourceforge fan I tough about it first, but the over long new project form convinced me that it was not the right choice. So I gave Google Code a chance, and fortunately it do the job pretty well ! So, the new place to find development code for the Geo::Coder::GoogleMaps Perl module is here :
http://code.google.com/p/geo-coder-googlemaps/
Do not hesitate to drop by and even do/request a code review !
Arnaud Dupuis
By Arnaud Dupuis on Wednesday 9 December 2009, 11:10 - General
Hi,
The topic have been treated already on the internet but since the official build of Google Chrome only landed few hours ago, some extra informations and "re-post" cannot be bad.
So ! Google Chrome is not packaged for Slackware GNU/Linux distributions, well... That's not completely unexpected. And it is not packaged as a universal GNU/Linux binary either, which is more troublesome. Anyway here is my 2 ways to install Google Chrome on Slackware 13.
Important: I made everything on my EeePC (since
I'm currently in holidays snowboarding in the French Alps) which runs
a Slackware 13 x86, but everything should be exactly the same on Slackware64. I
also have to warn you about my own install method : it's dirty and not
especially quick 
Method 1:
My own method, it's what I used to install Chrome as soon as I got the Google's email telling me the beta version of Chrome official Linux build was out in the wild ! So it's pretty dirty, and not the quickest way to do it. It's how I installed it even before thinking about looking at the web to see if something have been done by somebody else. You have been warned.
So first, download the Fedora RPM (32 or 64 bits), then run rpm2tgz :
su -c "rpm2tgz google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm"
Then install the resulting package. Do not waste your time to launch it, it will not start. For me the first reason is : I have not installed seamonkey and I miss the libnss3, so a quick sprint to slackbuilds.org and I had the mozilla-nss package installed (compiling and installing a package from a slackbuild script is very well documented on slackbuilds.org).
Almost, but it does not launch... The reason is, some poor links against libnss3. Well, at this point, I know I will not back off ! Let's shoot some ln shots !
ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1dln -s /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1dln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1dln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1dln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0dln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0dln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
If you are running a Slackware 64, just replace /usr/lib/ by /usr/lib64/ and
if you are using this way to install Google Chrome, bookmark this post to be
able to clean your system 
If you are not very fond of the manual linking (you are a wise person), please follow the Method 2 !
Method 2:
Well, the result is the same : you will get a working Google Chrome. The path to this result is considerably easiest and quickest (given the fact you have libnss3 on your system) :
Go to slackbuilds.org and get the Google Chrome slackbuild, install it (please refer to Method 1 for the link to the howto use a slackbuild).
That's all !
As a conclusion I would say that there is the equivalent of Method 1 for the
Debian 5 package, but the Slackbuild do it better than I care to explain

Enjoy Google Chrome and do not hesitate to give your feedback on it in the comments. So far for me, the difference in performance and CPU usage with Firefox on my EeePC is amazing ! I could barely run 4 tabs in Firefox, and look at the screenshot ! With 9 opened tabs it's still amazingly fast ! I will benchmark it against Fennec soon !
Arnaud Dupuis
Monday 7 December 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Monday 7 December 2009, 09:17 - Perl modules
Hi,
this weekend I have put online a new version of my Perl module Games::CroqueMonster. This version is still for the 0.8.1 API (since there is no update of the API on the server side) but fixes some issues in the documentation. Mainly I fixed typos and examples.
The new version is installable via the cpan tool :
cpan Games::CroqueMonster
You can also download it on CPAN :
http://search.cpan.org/~dupuisarn/Games-CroqueMonster-0.8.1-2/
Arnaud Dupuis
Friday 20 November 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 20 November 2009, 23:59 - General
Friday 18 September 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 18 September 2009, 00:25 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
After Daniel's recent update on the Swedish translation, it is now the Portuguese Brazilian translation's turn to be updated.
This allow me to introduce a new contributor to Association Subscribers Manager: Márcio Moraes (marciopanto <atnospam> gmail <dotnospam> com). Márcio have updated Diego's initial work on the Portuguese Brazilian translation. And what update ! All the interface is now available localized for Brazilian users ! Thank you very much Márcio. Here are some screenshots:
I don't know if you all know how important those contributions are, but they really are and they really count for me and all users of Association Subscribers Manager.
Once again, thanks to all the contributors !
Arnaud Dupuis.
Sunday 6 September 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 6 September 2009, 01:41 - Association Subscribers Manager
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Association Subscribers Manager 3.0.1 !
This one is a major bugfixe version of the 3.0 branch of Association
Subscribers Manager.
I want to particularly thanks all testers for their feedback and particularly
two of them : Fabrice Eyraud for all his bug reports and his French translation
of the documentation and the French association Forme et Santé (from La Couture
Boussey) for the feedback on live usage they did.
You can download packages and installer at :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/assuma/files/
You can report bugs and ask for new features at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=211536
You can also visit the website for more information :
http://www.associationsubscribersmanager.org
Here is a list of the main changes :
Association Subscribers Manager version 3.0.1
- integration of the patches from Sascha Manns and David Haller from
OpenSUSE packaging team
- fix a bug in the re-translation of the UI's tooltips
- fix a bug in the passive message system (messages still visible after
being hidden if the window is made biggest)
- fix a bug in the federation editor (see bug 2848046 on the
tracker)
- fix a bug in the search feature
- fix a bug in the mail sending system
- add French documentation translated by Fabrice Eyraud
- made packagers life easier by adding an install target to the Makefile
and possibility to configure the install destination (see README file).
Association Subscribers Manager is available as a source package (GNU/Linux,
Mac OS X, BSD*, Windows, require a compiler), binary package for Linux and
windows installer.
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis
Saturday 5 September 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 5 September 2009, 13:37 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
The current 3.0.0 version of Association Subscribers Manager have been found with some important bugs. I am working right now to provide as fast as possible (so far it will be later on today) a fix version of Association Subscribers Manager. This 3.0.1 release will include the following fixes :
This is quite a huge update since it fixes many bugs. This is not the complete list of changes but this is the main thing you will get working (a lot) better after you get the upgrade.
Stay tuned !
Arnaud Dupuis
Tuesday 25 August 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 25 August 2009, 08:45 - Android
Hi,
This post will be in French since it only is relevant for French people using an Android smartphone with the French carrier SFR.
Bonjour à toi visiteur !
Si toi aussi tu es grand, beau, fort et intelligent, félicitation ! Tu as donc un smartphone sous Android. C'est bien mais... Je sens que tu me cache quelque chose... Ah ! Mais c'est bien sur ! Tu es chez SFR ! Ne t'en veux pas trop, nous sommes plusieurs à avoir fait ce choix, judicieux (haem...), pour pouvoir avoir un HTC Magic tout beau tout neuf.
Visiteur, si toi aussi tu as un magic avec une ROM qui n'est pas celle d'origine, ou que tu n'as pas de Magic mais que tu es chez SFR, et si tu veux utiliser le répondeur visuel quand même, lit la suite ! (Si tu veux la gloire, la fortune et l'honneur tu peux aussi lire la suite mais je ne garantit pas l'efficacité, d'autant que si tu es l'heureux possesseur d'un téléphone sous Android tu as déjà tous cela).
Donc voilà, SFR fait parfois (qui a dit "souvent" !?) des choix qui laisse rêveur. Par exemple, un jour, à une foire à tout / brocante dans le Gers, SFR a troqué tout ses designer (et ceux de 9telecom) contre 763 Kg de courgettes... Du coup maintenant, c'est le laveur de carreaux qui fait le design des applis SFR. Voilà pourquoi SFR ne sort que de très très laid "design" rouge et blanc tout carré.
Une autre fois, par mesquinerie pour se venger d'Orange qui avait sortit un smartphone sous Android en premier, SFR a réservé l'accès à son service de répondeur visuel aux seuls possesseur de HTC Magic ! Et malgrès des commentaires assassin sur le market, aucune mise à jour corrigeant ce trait de caractère pour le moins singulier d'une application qui, sinon, serait tout à fait honorable (exception faite du design) n'est disponible.
Heureusement, le tableau n'est pas si noir : une solution existe et celle-ci te permettra, cher visiteur, d'utiliser toi aussi cette application bien pratique.
Viennent maintenant les traditionnelles mises en garde : en suivant ce how-to, vous allez touchez à des fichiers système d'Android. Ceci est une opération périlleuse (d'aucun dirais "dangereuse") qui peut faire du mal à votre smartphone. Bref, si vous cassez votre Android, ce n'est pas de ma faute ! Je décline toute responsabilité en cas de pépin te forçant, cher visiteur, a réinstallé ton système voir pire.
Ceci dit en avant ! Ah au fait, il vous faut un smartphone rooté pour pouvoir mettre en place ce how-to.
Le contexte : j'ai récemment installé une ROM CyanogenMod 4.0.2 sur mon Magic. Problème, le numéro de modèle du téléphone est "T-Mobile mytouch 3G", et comme de juste, le répondeur visuel de SFR ne veut pas se lancer :
Premier constat, je suis sur un Magic, et l'appli ne le détecte pas. Donc le test doit être succin voir même simpliste. Et ça l'est. Il suffit de modifier le numéro de modèle dans le fichier /system/build.prop. Dans mon cas (CyanogenMod 4.0.2) il faut modifier le /system/build.sapphire.prop.
Note: dans la suite, les commandes à taper peuvent être suivit de mes commentaires (à ne pas taper) entre parenthèses.
Dans un premier temps, récupérer ledit fichier (visiteur, n'oublie pas de brancher ton smartphone à ton ordinateur préalablement à toute manipulation. Sans cela tu t'expose à un cuisant échec) :
adb pull /system/build.prop build.prop
adb pull /system/build.sapphire.prop build.sapphire.prop (pour les utilisateurs de ROM CyanogenMod 4.0.2)
cp build.prop build.prop.backup (car on est jamais trop prudent)
cp build.sapphire.prop build.sapphire.prop.backup (même punition)
Une fois les fichiers sur votre ordinateur éditez les (avec un éditeur qui supporte les retours à la ligne UNIX pour les BillGatesiens). Les clés à changer/ajouter sont les suivantes (dans le fichier build.sapphire.prop pour les CyanogenMod-addict et dans le build.prop pour les autres) :
ro.product.model=HTC Magic
ro.product.brand=generic
ro.product.name=htc_sapphire
ro.product.device=sapphire
ro.product.board=sapphire
ro.product.manufacturer=HTC
ro.product.locale.language=fr
ro.product.locale.region=FR
ro.board.platform=msm7k
ro.build.product=sapphire
Vous devriez en avoir un certain nombre déjà présentes. A mon humble avis, seul le ro.product.model est vraiment important. Maintenant il ne reste qu'a remettre le fichier en place :
adb remount
adb push build.sapphire.prop /system/build.sapphire.prop (pour les utilisateurs d'une ROM CyanogenMod)
adb push build.prop /system/build.prop (pour les autres)
reboot
Et après le reboot, vous devriez, une larme à l'oeil, pouvoir utiliser SFR Répondeur visuel. Cool isn't it ?
Quelques remarques en vrac. Ce petit "truc" devrait pouvoir permettre aux utilisateurs de Hero et de Dream d'utiliser le répondeur visuel. Attention, modifier l'identité peut (va) certainement avoir des effets de bords sur le reste de votre téléphone (pour ne citer que ça : HTC fait peut être le même genre de test dans l'interface du Hero). Dans tous les cas, n'oubliez pas de faire un backup de votre build.prop ou build.sapphire.prop ! Mon petit truc n'a pas été testé sur d'autre smartphone ou ROM que le HTC Magic 32B avec une ROM CyanogenMod 4.0.2, tout autre configuration est donc à tester avec précautions. N'hésitez pas à laisser le résultat de vos tests dans les commentaires.
Les informations nécessaires à ce petit "truc" ont été récupéré un peut partout sur le net, mais particulièrement sur les forum dédiés à la ROM SPF.
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis
Wednesday 19 August 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Wednesday 19 August 2009, 19:33 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi !
Back from my holidays I resumed works on Association Subscribers Manager :
Friday 31 July 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 31 July 2009, 11:25 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
Thanks to Sascha Manns Association Subscribers manager is now packaged for OpenSUSE 11.1 ! The package is available here, the 1-Click install is here, and the repository is available here.
I am very grateful to Sascha and David Haller for their work and their patches. I will integrate their patches upstream and maintains them (if needed).
Arnaud Dupuis
Monday 27 July 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Monday 27 July 2009, 08:28 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Association Subscribers Manager 3.0 !
This one is the first stable version of the 3.0 branch of Association
Subscribers Manager.
I want to particularly thanks all testers for their feedback and particularly
two of them : Lucie Moore-Dupuis, my wife who was a great help with user
interface tests and who successfully bears with my Open Source obsession ! The
second one is Patrick Dupuis, my father who is the one who came with the
original idea of Association Subscribers Manager (it was originally developed
because his own association was in need of a software like this... it helps a
lot when your son is actually a developer) and gave some very useful advices
about the version 3.0.
You can download packages and installer at :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/assuma/files/
You can report bugs and ask for new features at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=211536
Here is a list of the main changes :
Association Subscribers Manager version 3.0
Branch main changes from 2.1.2 are :
- software completely recoded from Perl/Qt3 to C++/Qt4
- more efficient database file format
- huge performance improvement
- brand new UI
- more powerfull addon system
- internationalization support
Releases main changes are :
* Translations:
Association Subscribers Manager now supports the following languages :
- Romanian (Lucian Lupescu - http://lucianlupescu.co.cc/)
- Swedish (Daniel Persson)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Diego Ferreira)
- French (Arnaud Dupuis)
- English (Arnaud Dupuis)
* Software changes (from 3.0rc1):
- fix many bugs (please see the bugtracker at Sourceforge for a complete
list of corrected bugs)
- many UI fixes
- new federations files
- new first run wizard
- fix many real time data reload bugs
- new system for in-place edition
- performance improvement
- federations and license systems now works properly (with new and old
database format, new format have been changed a little)
- brand new UI graphical effects
- new user documentation
- complete API documentation
- in-place edition system have been polished
Association Subscribers Manager is available as a source package (GNU/Linux,
Mac OS X, BSD*, Windows, require a compiler), binary package for Linux and
windows installer.
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis
Sunday 26 July 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 26 July 2009, 02:34 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
I am falling asleep in front of my computer... Release 3.0 is ready but I have not enough remaining power to test all packages extensively tonight, so the release of Association Subscribers Manager is postponed until tomorrow.
Arnaud
Dupuis
Saturday 25 July 2009
By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 25 July 2009, 11:45 - Association Subscribers Manager
Hi,
Today is the Association Subscribers Manager 3.0 release day, so the entire day is dedicated to integration, last translations, last bugfixes, last documentation efforts, packaging and testing !
Let's hope the release will occur without any problem, but I'm quite confident about bugs and software issues. All possible problems may comes from the other part of Association Subscribers Manager : uncomplete documentation, packaging issues, uncomplete translations but somehow, we will manage to deliver a nice piece of software !
Arnaud Dupuis.
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