https://www.davehall.com.au/tags/phpgroupware/Recent content in Phpgroupware on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auSat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2009/10/02/goodbye-phpgroupware/Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2009/10/02/goodbye-phpgroupware/I am writing this post with a strong sense of sadness. At the same time I feel that I have no other option. I am walking away from phpGroupWare. Before I walk out the door, lets go for a trip down memory lane. Insert tacky music wavy lines down the screen and bad hair styles from here on in. I think the first time I heard Linux mentioned was in 1996/97.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/04/28/day-2-php-unconference-hamburg/Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/04/28/day-2-php-unconference-hamburg/I arrived back in Bergen late last night after spending another day the PHP Unconference in Hamburg. I even managed to get one speaker to do his talk in English, which made things a lot easier for me. My brain started to adjust to German a bit more, which made things easier than on day 1. Overall I think I understood about 25% of what was being discussed, which sounds like a waste of time, but that 25% was pretty good quality.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/04/27/php-unconference-hamburg-day-1/Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/04/27/php-unconference-hamburg-day-1/I spent yesterday at the PHP Unconference in Hamburg. None of the sessions were in English, so that meant I really struggled with some of the sessions, while some of the others I could pick up some of it. Between sessions I meant to meet a few people I had chatted with in IRC, but never met in meatspace. I always like to be able to put a face to a nick or blog, then have a beer or 2.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/02/18/barcamp-melbourne-2008/Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/02/18/barcamp-melbourne-2008/This weekend I am off to BarCamp Melbourne. I didn’t make it last year, but I decided to make the effort this year. I missed out on almost all of linux.conf.au, which was disappointing, but I did take Noah to the open day, which was lots of fun. I know BarCamp won’t make up for it, but it should still be a good day. I am hoping to give a talk about phpGroupWare.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/12/03/phpgroupware-now-using-subversion-savannah/Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/12/03/phpgroupware-now-using-subversion-savannah/phpGroupWare is now using subversion for its version control system. We are the first project to use svn on savannah. So far the transition has been pretty smooth. The motivation was trying to merge a 80k line unified diff into the phpGW tree from the ReSight tree - something CVS couldn’t really handle. Before switching to SVN, there had been some discussion in the past about which version control system we should use.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/10/26/happenings/Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/10/26/happenings/I am still alive. I had planned to blog regularly while I was in Norway, but that didn’t happen for various reasons - mostly lack of time. I have a backlog of stuff to post now. Norway was great, ReSight are a great company to work for. It now looks like we will get a stable release of phpGroupWare’s HEAD branch out this year. yay! I plan to blog more about what is happening with phpGW and ReSight - watch this space.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/10/03/phpgroupware-solutions-linux-2008/Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/10/03/phpgroupware-solutions-linux-2008/Over the last few years phpGroupWare has been involved with the Solutions Linux Conference and Expo in Paris. We have had speakers at workshops promoting the project. In 2008 we may even be exhibiting - that is still being finalised. Solutions Linux is one of the biggest events on the French FOSS business calendar. Given phpGW’s large French user base, it is appropriate that we are represented at the event.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/09/21/phpgroupware-gets-commercial-partner/Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/09/21/phpgroupware-gets-commercial-partner/All the pieces are now in place, so I can make the announcement. phpGroupWare now has a commercial partner - ReSight AS of Norway. Over the next 12 months ReSight will be working with several partners, including Bergen Bolig- og Byfornyelse KF, MIT FabLab Norway and others to enhance phpGroupWare. Most of their work will be centred on the property module, written by Sigurd Nes. Sigurd has done a great job in pulling this off.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/09/02/phpgroupware-articles/Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/09/02/phpgroupware-articles/Don (D.C.) Parris has started a series of articles about phpGroupWare over at Blue GNU. The articles are well written and provide a lot of good information for new users. I hope Don keeps on writing good stuff for us to link to. The articles have also been syndicated by others which should help raise the profile of the product. I will have another big phpGroupWare related announcement some time this month.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/08/14/new-phpgroupware-release-out/Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/08/14/new-phpgroupware-release-out/I have spent a little bit of time on phpGroupWare the last couple of evenings. The main motivator was becoming aware of CVE-2007-4048. The release also improved our PHP 5 support and there was the mandatory “various bug fixes” thrown in for good measure. I hope to have some time to work on some stuff in HEAD soon. Johan’s syncML stuff has me excited about hacking on phpGW. Update 2020: Removed broken links.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/07/23/update/Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/07/23/update/Yes I have been a bit slack about blogging lately, I have had a lot on. Here is a quick summary of the notable bits. Car My car is at the panel beaters. The guy who hit me drove off after I accused him of being drunk. The police have told me that he has been charged with several offences, including careless driving. Julie and Noah were in the car at the time, but they were both ok.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/05/31/coding-has-begun-and-now-i-get-mentoring/Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/05/31/coding-has-begun-and-now-i-get-mentoring/Johan has already started coding for his Google Summer of Code project for the GNU Project and phpGroupware. This morning I received confirmation from the FSF that Johan’s copyright assignment is sorted. I have done a quick review of some of Johan’s work, but I hope to spend some serious time on getting things moving this weekend. The new job has really put a big whole in my time available for anything other than work, commuting or my family.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/05/13/mugshot-whats-point/Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/05/13/mugshot-whats-point/I noticed a few geeks had mentioned mugshot in their blogs (sorry too lazy to dig up references), so I signed up. I am not that impressed so far. I have created a profile page, which sort of resembles a cut down version of my liferea RSS feeds. I joined some groups, and created a phpGroupWare group, which just allows others to join the group and receive the group’s feeds via their “stacker”.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/23/bye-bye-php-4/Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/23/bye-bye-php-4/I have several servers running PHP 5 already, but as my laptop is my primary phpGroupWare development and test environment, it was running PHP 4. I knew this day would come, I just didn’t think it would be so soon. PHP4 has been dropped from ubuntu. Ubuntu has never shipped php4 in main, but until feisty it has been in available in the universe. This is no more. The advantage of using PHP 5 on ubuntu is that it is in main, so has full security support.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/23/planet-summer-code/Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/23/planet-summer-code/Hi to everyone reading this post via Planet SoC - the unofficial Google Summer of Code aggregator. I am Dave Hall, API Coordinator, phpGroupWare and mentor from the GNU Project. I will be mentoring Johan Gunnarsson who will be working on a syncML interface for phpGroupWare. I have already blogged about the wild ride that I had to become a SoC mentor. I have decided to only add my SoC related posts to this planet so not to clutter things too much with my general ranting.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/20/phpgroupware-release/Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/20/phpgroupware-release/I have been thinking about how to deal with releases of phpGroupWare. For me it is a technical, procedural and political question. Over the last few months I have been playing with Drupal a fair bit. I love Drupal. It is simple to install, skin and hack. The community is great. The website is massive and has almost anything you want about Drupal. They dog food their stuff. I have quite a few clients using Drupal for their sites, they love it.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/12/summer-code-roller-coaster/Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2007/04/12/summer-code-roller-coaster/I am awaiting final confirmation from google and the GNU project, but I am 99% sure now that phpGroupWare will be getting a Summer of Code (SoC) slot, and I will be mentoring a student to implement sync. What a process it has been, and I am yet to start mentoring. I thought others might be interested in the the ups and downs involved in getting phpGroupWare a SoC place.