Author: Ralf
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Turba Addressbook (II) – Architecture
In the first chapter we looked at Turba’s features, APIs, Protocols. In the current installment, I want to present the concepts and structure of the code. Turba is among the oldest horde applications. As such, it contains parts from various stages of Horde’s development.
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Turba Addressbook (I) – Features
This will be the first part of a short series of articles exploring the Turba application and its architecture. Part I covers all the features and integrations provided by Turba. Part II will look into implementation, code structure etc. Part III will consist of proposals for a changed architecture.
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What’s new in Maintaina Horde: Status 3/2021
CalDAV and CardDAV now run off SabreDAV 4 rather than SabreDAV 2 We now support both the Composer installer versions 1 and 2. Nothing still depends on the PEAR protocol. The Horde Icalendar Library now supports vCard 4. Still, importing/exporting vCard 4 or using it in CardDAV in the addressbook App Turba is not yet…
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Maintaina Horde: Q&A
There’s sometimes a little confusion about that. Let’s answer common questions. What is Maintaina Horde? Horde is a long-living email and groupware solution. It’s free & open source and owned by Horde LLC.Maintaina Horde is a fork from the official horde repository adding / improving code. It started out as a proof of concept but…
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Maintaina Horde: Now on Leap 15.2
I changed the maintaina.com Horde Images to use openSUSE Leap 15.2 instead of openSUSE Tumbleweed as a base. You should not experience any issues but I have not yet tested much. The change was necessary as I had build failures since 2021-02-17 in the github actions CI builds. It’s something about the docker used in…
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DAVx5 CalDAV may break with Unicode symbols in Horde/Kronolith syncs.
If you get user complaints about broken CalDAV syncs with Horde, there’s many places to look at. In one particular instance, an event was created from travelling app Transportr into the stock android Calendar app. Through the DAVx5 sync app, the user wanted to push these events to Horde’s SabreDAV interface – and from there,…
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Horde Development Review: October 2020
October was a very busy month in Horde development, even though a lot of things happened under the hood and cannot be accessed right now. A decision was made that Horde RPC will default to json-rpc and deprecate xmlrpc in upcoming releases, maybe already dropping xmlrpc in Horde 6. PHP8 will remove xmlrpc from the…
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Autowiring Vfs in a Horde App
The Horde Vfs is an abstraction around storing and retrieving files. Calling code does not care about where the Vfs is actually stored, be it a remote filesystem, a dav resource, a database or a path in the local filesystem. Autowiring means the Injector knows how to create a class using some other class without…
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Docker for Windows now runs on Windows Home
Docker for Windows used to require Hyper-V and Windows Professional. Now, you can do basic software development on Windows Home. Here’s the story. I got hold of some older 4GB Windows convertible laptop. Unfortunately, it won’t run Linux in any useful way. In recent years, I did not really care for Windows a lot, apart…
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Heads Up: Cannot login as horde admin anymore?
Please be careful: Horde has introduced a new default setting $conf[‘auth’][‘lowercase’] which acts like the auth hook used to do. This might lead to issues when your default admin account is named “Administrator”. It is actually a very useful setting. It ensures that any prefs and other profiles also work with case-insensitive backends regardless of…