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LinuxWorld Interview

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:04:28 -0400

LinuxWorld interviewed me recently concerning OpenGroupware.org. The interview is part of their "Spotlight on Open Source in business" series.

getAuditEntries added to zOGI (r2095 / r91)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:53:05 -0400

The getAuditEntries method was added to the zOGI API as of r920, and added to the ZideStore trunk in r2095. getAuditEntries provides the ability to retrieve the audit entries from the server's database that have occurred since a specified entry. Using this feature a service can page through server changes and synchronize some repository; this allows functionality equivalent to that provided by MOGIMon but without a back-door database connection. Since audit records are serialized with integer ids in the OpenGroupware database this acts very much like the uSNChanged attribute provided by Microsoft Active Directory.

HordOGo

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:36:48 -0500

HordOGo provides integration between the OpenGroupware groupware server and the Horde application suite; HordOGo is a consumer of the zOGI API. Currently the HordOGo is hosted in the zOGI repository as an incubator; see the "Bindings/PHP/HordOGo" folder. Status of the HordOGo project is tracked on the zOGI wiki page for HordOGo.

TurbOGo & HordOGo

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:12:21 -0500

In October 2006 I wrote a simple Turba driver that used POGI to provide an OpenGroupware address source to the Horde application suite. I'm now working on HordOGo which will provide real integration with Horde. Hopefully HordOGo will eventually be accepted into the Horde trunk and bring OpenGroupware support on equal footing with Kolab.

Ext.ogo

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:32:43 -0500

Ext.ogo is a project to develope a Javascript wrapper around the zOGI to make it easier to use OpenGroupware from within the Ext JS framework. Ext JS is an impressive platform for developing highly interactive web applications with a high degree of browser independence. The intention of Ext.ogo is to build JSON support into the zOGI PHP wrapper and a simple Javascript object.

2007-02-21 - Currently the project is only in the planning stages but some basic testing has been performed and it seems possible to accomplish this goal in the fairly near term.

Building OGo From Source

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:14:17 -0400

cd gnustep-make-1.13.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OGo-GNUstep \
--with-library-combo=gnu-fd-nil \
--with-system-root=/usr/local/OGo-GNUstep \
--disable-importing-config-file \
--with-config-file=/usr/local/OGo-GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
make
make install

source /usr/local/OGo-GNUstep/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
cd ../sope/libFoundation
export CFLAGS=-Wno-import
./configure
make
sudo make -j1 INSTALL_ROOT_DIR=/ \
GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR=/usr/local \
FHS_INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local install

cd ..
export CFLAGS=
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \

OGoX

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:12:26 -0500

OGo & PostgreSQL 8.3

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:14:54 -0500

PostgreSQL 8.3 not longer performs automatic casting of INT to TEXT when INTs are compared to character types. This change is documented in the release notes. This change causes a database exception to occur in OpenGroupare's ACL processing. The specific error is:
ERROR: IN types character varying and integer cannot be matched

ACL queries like the following cause the exception because they contain a condition that compares string value to an array of integers: auth_id IN ( 9981, 9991,... where auth_id is a VARCHAR(255) value.

Improvement to SOPE's PostgreSQL Adaptor

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:06:37 -0500

Do you have lots of errors like:
Feb 17 20:39:28 ogo-zidestore-1.5 [14569]: ERROR(+[NSCalendarDate(PostgreSQL72Values) valueFromCString:length:postgreSQLType:attribute:adaptorChannel:]): unexpected string '2007-03-13 15:38:41.420456+00' for date type 'DATE', returning now (expected format: '2001-07-26 14:00:00+02')
in your ZideStore error log? This is because the time & date parser in SOPE's PostreSQL adaptor didn't understand the milliseconds portion of the value. As of SOPE r1601 this should be corrected. SOPE now just ignores the millisecond value. See the diff for details.

Consonance Gets A Calendar UI (r470)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:17:27 -0500

Consonance now has a calendar UI for the scheduler tab of the main window. This is a significant milestone; up until now that feature has been very conspicuously absent. I had hoped to be be able to port some code from some other projects but ended up writing the entire widget from scratch. Consonance displayed a calendar event for the first time on 2007-12-30 at 16:33 (GMT). A screenshot is here and also attached to this post. This code is included as of r470.

OGo Getting Caffinated

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:01:31 -0500

There has been discussion on the OpenGroupware lists about the work Helge has been doing lately in regards to Java and OpenGroupware. The relevant threads are here , here, and the message that started it all is here.

Funambol 6.5 Reaches GA

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:02:33 -0500

Funambol announced that version 6.5 has now reached "Generally Available" status. Otherwise known as "been released". Hot upon the heals of that news was word from BionicMessage that the GroupDAV connector for v6.5 was already available.

zOGI r879

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:14:32 -0500

As of r879 zOGI can now update team membership. This is the first "administrative" function supported by zOGI; addition of this feature allowed the porting of the LDAPTeamSync utility from the old MOGI.RPC2 connectivity using the legacy XML-RPC API to the shiny new zOGI API and assembly. The code is currently included in the Consonance repository.

libical packages for CentOS5

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:39:27 -0400

While preparing an OpenGroupware.org deployment on CentOS 5 I noticed that there are no libical and libical-devel packages. So I grabbed a copy of libical 0.27 and someone's SPEC file and produced a set of packages.

zOGI Now In ZideStore

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:42:29 -0400

The main branch of zOGI is now included in Zidestore (as of r1995). So if you use nightly builds the next time you update you should automatically have the zOGI protocol bundle - no installation required. The Google Code repository will now be used as the experimental branch; those wanting a stable zOGI should use the one included in ZideStore. For now the documentation remains on the Google Code Wiki.