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Support La Quadrature du Net!

6 months ago I gave 100€ to La Quadrature du Net . It’s an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. Its reputation is well established and its actions are internationally recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Software Foundation  . They didn’t …
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maildir-deduplicate.py moved to its own repository

In 2010 I created maildir-deduplicate.py , a one-of script to detect and remove duplicate copies of emails. Since then, Adam added loads of features and refinements to it, promoting himself to the de-facto maintainer. 3 months ago he privately asked me if I could split this script out of its …
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Behind the Scenes of Omashay’s Where is she?

Back from holidays, and it’s time for me to clear my backlog of draft articles. Here is the last and missing piece of my 2012 production notes series. Let’s rewind to year ago, when Where is she? was released  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjE_uIRVnv8 Pre-production  ¶ Tomasito …
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Addon to restore search range in OpenERP 6.1

In OpenERP 6.1, the default search widget for dates and floats no longer feature a range  : This was uncovered by users in the community . But it’s not a bug, it’s a feature , a design decision. Worse, datetime search field in OpenERP 6.1 no longer let you …
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Run OpenERP’s ir.cron from command-line

Here is a simple Python script to trigger an ir.cron job from the command-line system. I created this to let my customer use his proprietary job scheduler to trigger OpenERP tasks. It was tested on OpenERP 6.1. 1 #!/usr/bin/python 2 3 import sys 4 import traceback …
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