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Author: Ralf

  • The state of horde composer deployments

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    In early 2019 I first wrote a few lines on migrating horde to composer based setups. Even though I was too occupied with other business for several months, I have something to show and it is time to review what we have and what we don’t have. The good news is, it really runs as…

  • PEAR down – Taking Horde to Composer

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    Since Horde 4, the Horde ecosystem heavily relied on the PEAR infrastructure. Sadly, this infrastructure is in bad health. It’s time to add alternatives. Everybody has noticed the recent PEAR break-in. A security breach has been found on the http://pear.php.net webserver, with a tainted go-pear.phar discovered. The PEAR website itself has been disabled until a…

  • Current (10/2018) Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 1

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    Hallo, I just had a little struggle getting the current tumbleweed to run on the original Raspberry Pi (first generation, though the revision with larger RAM). Just in case this helps anybody: I did not have any luck with a fresh openSUSE Tumbleweed image of one of the current arm6 builds. Don’t know why. Here’s…

  • horde trustr – A new horde CA app step by step

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    Trustr is my current project to create a simple certificate management app. I decided that it is just about the right scope to demonstrate a few things about application development in Horde 5. I have not made any research if the name is already occupied by some other software. Should any problems arise, please contact…

  • Why upstream rejects patches

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    I held “12 megalis 20 mg Gründe, warum dein Patch immer abgelehnt wird” (12 top reasons why upstream rejects your patches) at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2018, using examples from OpenStack, Horde and nextcloud. I intend to follow up with some blog posts shortly.

  • Boneyard – a barebone horde “dynamic view” app based on “skeleton”.

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    Boneyard – a barebone horde “dynamic view” app based on “skeleton”. In this article, I will show you some minimal setup for a “horde5 dynamic view” application as demonstrated by hermes time tracking and kronolith calendar Pre-requisite We have a working git checkout of a 5.2 or master installation of horde with some authentication and…

  • Horde_Rdo Many to Many relations and Horde DB Migrator

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    Many to Many relations btween to object types or table rows are usually saved to a database using a third table. For example, if every server can have multiple services and each service can run on multiple computers, we need a third table to store the relations: server table: server_id | server_name 1 | hoellenhund.internal.company.com…

  • Thimbleweed Park angekündigt

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    Ron Gilbert, der Mann, der uns Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island (1+2) und Total Annihilation brachte, hat zusammen mit Gary Winnick die Entwicklung eines klassischen Point&Click-Adventures begonnen. Thimbleweed Park wird für PC, Android und iOS erscheinen und (optionale) Sprachausgabe sowie Übersetzung von Boris Schneider-Johne, der schon Monkey Island übersetzte. Mitte Juni 2016 soll methenolone enanthate das…

  • Sara Golemon (Facebook) announces PHP Language Specification for OSCON 2014

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    For more than 10 years, PHP core developers repeatedly raised the topic of providing a formal language specification for PHP. Now a team of facebook employees has written such a specification. The spec document is currently only available as a preview chapter a preview chapter . PHP veteran Sara Golemon announced on the “PHP internals”…

  • Sara Golemon (Facebook) kündigt PHP Language Specification auf OSCON 2014 an

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    Seit über 10 Jahren bringen immer wieder einige der PHP-Sprachentwickler den Plan an, eine formale Spezifikation für den Sprachkern bereitzustellen. Ein Team bei Facebook hat das nun getan. Die Spezifikation, die bisher nur als Vorschau vorliegt, wurde von Sara Golemon auf der Entwickler-Liste angekündigt und soll auf der OSCON 2014 vorgestellt werden. Sara Golemon veröffentlichte…