Category: Tech
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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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Luedecke petitions Hewlett-Packard: Release the HP WebOS code now!
OpenSUSE Ambassador Roger Luedecke has just started a petition towards the Hewlett-Packackard Company (HP) to release the WebOS source code under the GPL license. Luedecke says, “I care deeply about this very important issue”. WebOS is a mobile operating system based on Linux and was originally developed by handheld computer producer Palm, who are now…
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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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Horde Project pushes libraries to the frontpage
As you might know, the horde project does not only release a set of production quality software (and an interesting bunch more which are not yet release quality) but also provides over 80 well-designed loosely coupled libraries which help you build websites, business applications or even commandline tools. To stress that point, the Horde Project…
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Tip of the day: Changing global php pear settings as root
Don’t forget: when you change pear settings as root, usually you want to set values in the system pear config, not in root’s personal config. The crucial third parameter is optional and defaults to ‘user’. We want ‘system’ instead pear config-set test_dir /usr/share/php/tests systems verify: pear config-show
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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.