Worked on welcome dialog implementation.

storage/appdata_storage.py

@@ -30,15 +30,20 @@ class AppDataStorage(object):
     def writeSettings(self, settings):
         pass # todo: finish this
 
+    def __parseRow(self, row):
+        row['date'] = int(row['date'])
+        row['pinned'] = row['pinned'].lower() in ['true', 'yes', '1', 'on']
+        return row
+
     def readRecentProjects(self):
         if (os.path.exists(self.__recentProjectsPath)):
-            with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'rb') as recentProjectsFile:
+            with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'r') as recentProjectsFile:
                 csvreader = csv.DictReader(recentProjectsFile, fieldnames=AppDataStorage.RECENT_PROJECTS_FIELDS)
                 for row in csvreader:
-                    yield row
+                    yield self.__parseRow(row)
 
     def writeRecentProjects(self, items):
         self.__createPath(self.__recentProjectsPath)
-        with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'wb') as recentProjectsFile:
+        with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'w') as recentProjectsFile:
             csvwriter = csv.DictWriter(recentProjectsFile, AppDataStorage.RECENT_PROJECTS_FIELDS)
             csvwriter.writerows(items)