Installing OpenERP 5 from Bazaar

This installation procedure is valid for the development version of OpenERP 5.0.0 (December 2008)
$> mkdir ~/openerp/unstable/5.0 -p $> cd ~/openerp/unstable/5.0 $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-server/trunk server $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-client/trunk client $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-addons/trunk addons $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-client-web/trunk client-web $> cd server/bin/addons $> ln -s ../../../addons/* .
Starting the server can then be done like this:
cd .. ./tinyerp-server.py –db_port=5432

Uninstalling eTiny.egg

If you ever installed Python's eTiny module for OpenERP, you might want to remove it to install another version. In this case, the solution is to delete the eTiny module's directory (in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages for example).
cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ rm -r eTiny-1.0.1.1-py2.4.egg/ vim easy-install.pth
and remove the line importing the eTiny module.

Dokeos 1.8.6 alpha released

This is an unstable release intended to help developers and dokeos fans to try out the new features of Dokeos 1.8.6 from a simple packaged version. This IS NOT to be used as a start for a production installation. No excuse will be accepted in exchange of community support if you *did* install a 1.8.6 Alpha and started using it in production. If you do that, you are on your own.

Error reporting disappeared in PHP5 when using error_reporting "E_ALL" in VirtualHost

It has been my understanding, since a few years back, that setting
php_admin_value error_reporting "E_ALL"
inside my Apache's VirtualHost configuration actually permitted to set the error reporting to all types of error. Recently, upgrading Ubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10 (I don't know exactly which versions of PHP5 that actually meant), several of our team have seen their error reporting disappear... I first thought this was related to XDebug, installed on all our computers, but disabling it didn't fix anything. After 2 hours of searching for pretty much any topic related

Dokeos in Colombia

[caption id="attachment_302" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Dokeos in Colombia"]Image removed.[/caption] I'm leaving in just a few minutes from now for the airport, to go to Colombia for 2 important conferences. One about freedom of knowledge, another about Ubuntu in Colombia.

Fixing WebCalendar 1.2.0 + iCal, in French

While trying to debug WebCalendar 1.2.0 a little, combined with iCal and using French, we found a series of things that might be worth reporting in one go... First of all, some weird warning messages appear reporting that mb_language() did not understand "French" as a supported language. Basically, the php documentation on mb_language() is quite clear: this function only supports "Japanese", "ja", "English", "en" and "uni" as languages, and is mostly used in the context of e-mails to translate fonts from one language to another.

Getting the Dokeos statistics right...

Following our recent clean-up of the campus.dokeos.com and a lot of talks I've been holding about the huuuge Dokeos community, I thought it was strange that these statistics (as can now be seen on http://www.dokeos.com/en/community.php) did not move a bit after we deleted 200000 users from campus.dokeos.com. Checking all of this very quickly (because we're still under high work load), I realized there was a little bug in the statistics gathering script which prevented updates, and that there was also a check a little bit too severe, which caused several portals to re-register themselves. Cle