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Thursday 22 April 2010

KDE Finance Stack Spring Sprint meeting

By Arnaud Dupuis on Thursday 22 April 2010, 08:00 - KDE

Hi folks !

First, sorry for my long silence after Association Subscribers Manager v3.2 release. I recently got a new job and it's tiring... A lot !

Anyway ! From friday to sunday is held the first sprint of the KDE Finance Stack community in Franckfurt, and I'll be there. We'll discuss many things and I'll keeps you informed during the whole thing. Make sure to watch Twitter for the really hot news ;-)

Arnaud Dupuis

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Sunday 11 April 2010

Association Subscribers Manager v3.2 is out !

By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 11 April 2010, 12:59 - Association Subscribers Manager

I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Association Subscribers Manager 3.2 codename "Frenchies" !
This one is a major bugfixe version and feature improvement of Association Subscribers Manager.
I want to thanks particularly all testers and bug reporters that helps me make this version, particularly : Sandra Spadaccini and Max Buttjer. They helped a lot by testing the Mac OS X and Windows versions. They reported many bugs and helped a lot to improve some critical features like the custom fields.
I also want to welcome a new contributor : Nicolas Lécureuil. He is taking care of the Mandriva package.
As everyone may see there is a lot of French peoples that helped for this release, so this 3.2 version have a codename and it's all to their glory ! You will find another proof of my gratitude when you will launch Association Subscribers Manager !
You can download packages and installer at :
You can report bugs and ask for new features at:
You can also visit the website for more information :
Twitter live feed is at:
Here is a list of the main changes :
Association Subscribers Manager version 3.2
 - changes layout of the subscribers summary/subscribers edit zone
 - made little update to the default theme styles
 - modify the subscriber's tooltip behaviour : now when dues column are hidden, the tooltip do not show the warning about them anymore
 - modify the search widget to make it more customizable by allowing the select and search into any fields (regular or custom)
 - add Mac OS X support
 - add support for compressed XML (for postal codes only at the moment)
 - fix a bug with postal codes (application was asking to add postal code/city couples even if they were empty)
 - add support for custom fields' in-place custom editor in the main view
 - fix a bug in passive popup display (they were sometime bigger than the application)
 - fix custom fields problems fix translations
Association Subscribers Manager is available as a source package (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, BSD*, Windows, require a compiler), binary package for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis

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Sunday 28 March 2010

Association Subscribers Manager updates and next release

By Arnaud Dupuis on Sunday 28 March 2010, 12:42 - Association Subscribers Manager

Hi,

The next release of Association Subscribers Manager is on its way ! It was originally the 3.1.1 wich was planned but I received so much help, suggestions and feature request that, without implementing one of the initially planned features for 3.2, I just can't release a 3.1.1 version ! It is far from being just a patch release, this one will feature some major features enhancements :

  • Mac OS X support (at last !)
  • some UI changes
  • bugfixes (some unbelivably got through previous bug hunting and where quite huge !)
  • a completly reworked search widget
  • an global behaviour update
Quite some things that were asked by users directly since the 3.1 version was released. The 3.2 release is due for friday the 2nd of April. If you are using the shared Google calendar for Association Subscribers Manager's release you might already know, else you can visit http://www.associationsubscribersmanager.org in the Roadmap section to view and subscribe to this calendar.

Enjoy !

Arnaud Dupuis

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Wednesday 24 March 2010

Helping a cousin project : lemonPOS (©Guillaume De Bure)

By Arnaud Dupuis on Wednesday 24 March 2010, 06:54 - KDE

Lemon POS screens

Following other people from the KDE Finance Apps group (like Guillaume), I will help a great project to get some vision on the Web/KDE planet (when I finally got aggregated... or not...) : Lemon POS.

Lemon POS is the only Open Source Point Of Sale software I am aware of and it looks like something really interesting to me. I think that if you are running a small or medium business you should definetly try this out ! Lemon POS is KDE 4.x powered and thus looks very beautiful in addition to be useful and just this should makes you think twice about this... When I see how hugly POS software usually are... It almost makes your eyes bleed !

Anyway give it a try and visit the Lemon POS homepage !

Arnaud Dupuis

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Saturday 23 January 2010

Association Subscribers Manager and KDE

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

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Friday 11 January 2008

Big day today : KDE 4.0.0 announcement and starting 10 days snowboarding

By Arnaud Dupuis on Friday 11 January 2008, 07:49 - KDE

Hi,
Well almost everything was said in the title... The main information for the planet is the official KDE 4.0.0 announcement (and the huge party in Mountain View) ! I tried to help the dream to become true, and I want to thanks all the KDE core developers : THANK YOU SO MUCH !

Thanks to Aaron, Anne-Marie, Jonathan, Adriaan and all the community the next generation desktop is now a reality and for the sake of the Open Source community's dynamism it's a great news. And for the sake of my desktop it's even a greater news !
I just can't wait for the images/video/blog entries of the release party ! I hope you will enjoy the same feeling I did the first time I got Plasma running.
Now for my little announcement : as soon as the C++ part of the slack-get library is written, I'll write a Plasmoid which will allow you to stay up-to-date by just looking at your (beautiful) desktop !

Last but not least, starting today I take a break from all coding activities (slack-get as well as KDE), and go 10 days in the Alps trying breaking one or two legs on my snowboard !
I'll try to provide some pictures ;-)
If the internet can't climb to Val d'Isère, or if I'm so badly hurt that i can't use my laptop, or if i'm just too lazy to write a blog entry : see you in 10 days ! More probably : see you in few days.

Arnaud Dupuis

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Thursday 13 December 2007

Trolltech's big move !

By Arnaud Dupuis on Thursday 13 December 2007, 20:25 - KDE

TodayTrolltech announced that the Phonon back-ends they have developped are being hosted on KDE's SVN repository !
That's a hell of great news since it bring back-ends for both windows and Mac OS X KDE's port !
As a programmer I'm very excited with KDE 4 and all the things around like Phonon, Solid and the others. And since I'm a big fan of Qt I'm very glad that Trolltech made such a great move.
Keep going on !

Arnaud Dupuis

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