João Moreno .com

Hey guys!

Tomorrow morning I’ll be on my way to BarCampPortugal2007, on Coimbra, Portugal! I’ll try to post some photos and comments on what’s going on.

Yupiii.

I figured my blog needed a more robust theme. So I chose Stardust from an amazing Italian designer, Tommaso Baldovino, and went about hacking it to my taste.

Let’s see how it goes.

Let me update you with the latest news about pynpp.

I’ve been working on the internal console up until now, and I think it’s pretty decent. My first purpose was to be able to debug plugins trough a nice interface, that embedded well with Notepad++, but as the development went on I decided to build a proper console docked on Notepad++.

This console is quite stable, though not fully tested. For the future expect some colouring, maybe syntax colouring. I think it’s not important for now.

Also, I’m documenting the entire Python module that pynpp builds inside Notepad++ - it’s called pynpp (original, huh?). Here are those docs. This module will carry all the objects needed to create plugins in Python for Notepad++.

If you want a test drive, you can always download the latest DLL build, directly from the SVN repository through HTTP right over here.

Finally, here’s a screenie from the latest build:

Just open up regedit and navigate to the key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Text Editor

Create a new String (REG_SZ), with the content RGB(255,128,128) 79, and you’ll have a thin red line on the 80th column of your option-lacked IDE.

[ Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor @ Sara Ford’s Weblog ]

Recently, I was thinking of improving QuickText to its next version, featuring better configuration files, mirror and randomly ordered hotspots. When I finally decided to get my hands dirty, I found myself trying to catch up with the C/C++ code I had done a few months ago - its readability was awful. Notepad++ allows plugins through DLL files that use the Windows messaging system to communicate with the application - mainly written in C ou C++. It all works beautifully but not as elegant and as productive as one would wish.

Today I started the pynpp project on Google Code, a plugin that offers Python plugins to Notepad++. It will feature an API for better and faster programming of plugins, and of course provide all the wonders of Python.

Also, QuickText will be completelly rewritten in Python and the project will be moving to Google Code.

[ The pynpp Google Code Project Page ]

I’ll be attending this Portuguese Lan Party from the 19th to the 21st October, in Évora.

It will feature many conferences, workshops and speeches from many free software advocates like Jono Bacon - the current Ubuntu Community Manager.

The CNSL, or Concurso Nacional de Software Livre, will be the first Portuguese free software competition and it will also take place over there.

Great work from the guys at NEEI, Universidade de Évora.