If you ever want to implement projects with Odoo and, like us, you are a bit itchy about non-free-software licenses and alternative BSD or LGPL-like licenses, you might want to know this. Odoo itself was previously (as OpenERP) AGPL, but it apparently (following David from Odoo S.A.

I just solved an issue that had me waking up in the middle of the night for weeks (just pushing it a bit) and I have to thank PHP's community and in particular a guy named Brad Proctor for writing a very short but very important comment in the PHP manual, and I quote:

This function is relatively slow (as of PHP 5.3.3) and if you are calling a method with a known number of parameters it is much faster to call it this way: $class->{$method}($param1, $param2);

He mentions

Today we release Chamilo 1.9.4, with a number of notable improvements in speed, usability and features, but you know... that's nothing compared to what we're preparing for version 1.10. We've got a pocket full of kryptonite ready to blow your eyes out this year, but let's focus on 1.9.4 for now.

Introduction: the requirements

A customer of ours wanted a website which could manage the integration of just about any external content (meaning video, audio, images, but also Google docs, slides from Slideshare and books from Scribd) in a 'Resource' content type.

I will be presenting Chamilo and our intention to make a Chamilo package for Ubuntu this year at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Brussels, on Friday 14th of May (at the beginning of the afternoon).

Translating a web application is not an easy task (although it might seem so).

I've been looking around for nice ways to build mindmaps that would not require nor Java nor Flash widgets to display them in a navigator.

Apparently, the next versions of OpenERP will be AGPL. I could not approve this change enough.