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The Author
The author is a developer and trainer in perl and PHP with several years of professional experience in both areas. While leaning strongly towards solutions involving the horde framework he also solved problems with perl catalyst, moose, CakePHP, wordpress, facebook api, PHP Symfony and Zend Framework. Get my GPG key for secure communication. —–BEGIN PGP…
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Distributed applications with Horde 4
Synopsis Horde’s powerful RPC API has been used numerous times to allow integration of horde-based data into external applications or remote sites. It also provides an easy to set up basis for distributed applications with headless workers. In this article I will give you a brief introduction on how to build a scalable distributed architecture…
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Using socat or netcat to debug unix sockets like telnet for tcp
Sometimes you want to debug a service with a clear text protocol, but it uses unix sockets instead of INET sockets. Surprisingly, there is little info on this around the net. An easy solution would be socat: socat UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/blabla/nameofthe.sock STDIN EDIT: Linux consultant Stefan Seyfried pointed out, that from openSUSE 12.1 onwards you can also…
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OpenSUSE 12.1 drops Sun/Oracle Java
Today, openSUSE Program Manager Andreas Jaeger announced that openSUSE will stop shipping Sun Java in the upcoming 12.1 release. Distribution users will now only be offered the GPLed openJDK. In a recent announcement, Oracle declared openJDK to be the new official reference implementation for Java SE7. Along with that move, Oracle dropped the “Distributor’s License…
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Jan Schneider: Automatic twitter messages with Horde_Service_Twitter and two lines of code
Jan Schneider just posted a damn cool use case for the Horde_Service_Twitter library. Using this library, just a few lines of php code are enough to send messages to your twitter stream like this: #!/usr/bin/env php <!–?php /* Keys – these are obtained when registering for the service */ $keys = array( ‘consumer_key’ => ”,…
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Horde 4.0.6 brings user-specific admin privileges
Traditionally, Horde only knows two kinds of users: Users with administration flag and users without. The list of admins is a static entry in the horde config file. It’s all or nothing – either a user gets access to all admin functions or to none. At least until recently. Last October I wrote about a…
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Migrating Horde 3 to Horde 4 – Top 6 ways to mess up
There have been some migrations of Horde 3 to Horde 4 recently – not all went smooth from the start. Some top issues of messing things up and how to avoid it: initial application dimpIn Horde 3 dimp was a separate application which provided an ajax interface to imp. It has since been merged into…
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Quote of the Day: Sleeping
Only sleeping really saves energy, not doing work slowly. Kay Sievers on OpenSUSE Factory. This was meant to describe computer power saving strategies but applies to human brains, too.
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OpenSUSE Build Service rebranded
Today the openSUSE project announced that their packaging solution OpenSUSE Build Service will be re-branded to highlight the crossplatform nature of the product. The new name of the platform will be Open Build Service (OBS). Commercial support will also be available soon. Ralph Dehner, CEO at B1 Systems GmbH noted: “In the past B1 Systems…
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Horde 4 submit-requested into OpenSUSE 12.1
Today I submit-requested the Horde 4 Application Framework and the stable apps for openSUSE Factory. This is becoming openSUSE 12.1 if the packages get accepted on time. They are currently in review. openSUSE Legal team wants to review all packages’ licensing – I’m sure that’s NOT the fun part of their job. If everything works…