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I thought I'll write a short update on what we are doing at Dokeos at the moment, so you don't think we're just sleeping through the summer holidays... Eric and Julian, of the French team, are currently working on a project for a specific hospital management school in France, and on a large and long-time review project before the migration of portals to version 1.8.5 for an important Belgian client.

Just wanted to highlight a post I randomly found and that is interesting and is from the blog of someone (I don't know whom exactly) obviously close to Ubuntu (the blog is full of articles and links to Ubuntu). http://jonreagan.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/canonical-microsoft-and-apple/ It makes me think we should really get Dokeos packed up for Ubuntu (or at least Edubuntu) as we're really starting to have something good here...

In order to start offering Web Services inside Dokeos, I (and Stefaan Vanbillemont) have been testing out the SCA_SDO package from PECL (for PHP), that reportedly offers the possibility to deploy web services from existing functions only by including a common file and adding a bit of documentation "PHPDocumentor style" to the code. As we are using PHPDocumentor-like comments already, and have a lot of existing functions possibly offering all the services we would like to offer as web services, I thought SCA_SDO was a perfect match. The SDO-part of the extension will not be used in our contex

Following up on my last piece of news about the update put in the OpenERP wiki about installation under Ubuntu, we have come across a problem today (we are still in our testing phase) as we couldn't create more databases. Apparently, the problem was due to the terp (Linux) system user not being assigned a bash by default when created by the Ubuntu package.This meant that the request to create a new database being apparently operated from the command line, OpenERP couldn't execute this operation successfully.

There are a few shortcomings with PHP5, but not so many. One of them, though, is that memory limits are a bit tricky to handle. We don't handle them very well in Dokeos either, so the results of experiencing a memory limit in Dokeos is this: Yes, nothing. That's generally what you would end up with. So if you want to make sure Dokeos can handle pretty much every kind of thing you would want it to do, you would be wise to put a memory limit of at least 8MB in your php.ini file.

[digg=http://digg.com/software/Evolution_mail_plugin_to_reply_using_templates_accepted] Following-up on my latest article about this plugin (where you can find links to download its early version), it seems that the plugin had been awaited for a long time.

This article was first written in December 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/193).

Convert your .wab file with libwab - turns Windows Address Book (WAB) files into ldif. Then, import the newly-created ldif file into your LDAP server, after having adapted the entries if needed. See also the Libpst project.

I have added a Dokeos 1.8.6 page with details of the roadmap for 1.8.6, and hidden the Dokeos 1.8.5 page, considering we are now fully into the development of fixes and new features for 1.8.6.

Although it's got nothing to do with Dokeos (apart from the way I found it), I think this manual is worth a look if you are going on vacation. It's a home-safety manual written by computer security professionals. It is not damn funny as I was half-expecting, but it kind of gives you a nice checklist of what you can do to protect your house before leaving on a sunny beach or a snowy mountain. http://www.isecom.org/hsm/

I have recently improved the installation guide for OpenERP 4 on Ubuntu (8.04). Previously, this documentation was available on the old OpenERP wiki, but it has been lost to the public during an upgrade of the website.