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. in a message on the 2nd of March […]
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 […]
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. You can download it […]
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. There are multiple ways to do this in Drupal, however there are lots of […]
Introduction: the requirements A customer wanted a website with some event management that would include: A public, general calendar with all of the events A per-group calendar for each group of users that would display the group events The possibility for group members to create private events, accessible only to the other group members A […]
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). As a side gift, I will be meeting Jono Bacon (writer of “The Art of Community” and Mark Shuttleworth, the […]
Translating a web application is not an easy task (although it might seem so). Or rather, translating it well is not easy. Using tools like gettext will help you, of course, but past the tools, there are a few things that do not seem to be well understood by web developers with little experience in […]
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. To cut short, today I’ve had a little time to try out a new one (based on the js-mindmap in Google code) that is much more like what I would […]
So that’s it, after leaving Dokeos and starting the Chamilo project, I will now be mostly writing on this blog (here) rather than on this one, and will link the Chamilo-related posts directly to the Chamilo website as soon as I get a chance to play with Feeds on Drupal. Let’s make it clear: BeezNest […]
Apparently, the next versions of OpenERP will be AGPL. I could not approve this change enough. The current world is crippled by companies (coined as ‘evil’ by Fabien Pinckaers) who use and modify the software for their own customers without ever contributing a bit of code. This actually makes them parasites of GPL software, instead […]
I was trying to find out the total contributions to our code, by contributor, between two dates, and thought I could do that with the PHP API from Ohloh, given the fact that it already provides nice analysis about the contributions in open-source projects. Apparently, there is no way, currently, to get the total list […]
I’ve been investigating a little bit about cPanel and Fantastico. I first thought they were open-source. They’re not. Then I thought it would be easy to develop scripts to manage my own open-source web application. It’s not possible because of the license. Then I thought I could find documentation on how to ask someone to […]
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