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Horde is both an Open Source software project and an application framework written in PHP.
The application framework is currently the basis for 50 applications written by developers from around the world, including the flagship IMP Webmail client, the popular Chora repository viewer, and a complete groupware suite. The guiding principles of the Horde Project are to create solid standard-based applications using intelligent object oriented design, and wide-ranging platform and backend support. There is great emphasis on making Horde as friendly to non-English speakers as possible. The Horde Framework currently supports many localization features such as unicode and right-to-left text, and is shipped with translations in over 40 languages.

This project is managed by Jan Schneider.

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Large commit — Clean up wrapping, comments, simplify some logi...

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In commit 76c99112 by Michael J Rubinsky on 2011-12-15 (5 months ago)

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Large commit — Update lv translation.

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In commit 9238a761 by Jan Schneider on 2011-12-12 (5 months ago)

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Large commit — [mms] Remove Cclient drivers.

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In commit 5354175a by slusarz (Using name ‘Michael M Slusarz’) on 2011-12-06 (6 months ago)

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Large commit — Merge branch 'horde_vcs-tests'

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In commit 0e0b5183 by Jan Schneider on 2011-12-05 (6 months ago)

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Large commit — Merge branch 'horde_vcs-tests'

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In commit 3a162ba0 by Jan Schneider on 2011-11-28 (6 months ago)

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Shared SQL Authentication with Horde and Dovecot Part 2 - Michael Rubinsky

Posted 10 days ago

Part 2 of a series on moving an existing Dovecot/Postfix setup from PAM/Shadow based authentication to SQL authentication shared with a Horde install.

Shared SQL Authentication with Horde and Dovecot Part 1 - Michael Rubinsky

Posted 10 days ago

Part 1 of a series on moving an existing Dovecot/Postfix setup from PAM/Shadow based authentication to SQL authentication shared with a Horde install.

A sneak peek of the new Horde 5 user interface - Gunnar Wrobel

Posted 11 days ago



To get an idea on how Horde 5 will look like: click the link or the image of this post.

Why does Horde 5 get a face lift? Simply because the current UI was mentioned often enough as an issue by many Horde users. And since the ... [More] Horde 4 release had a very technical focus the switch from Horde 3 to Horde 4 last year did not help - it even degraded consistency between the applications. At the same time the competition does not sleep and there are more and more large installations that offer their user base two different webmails - one of them being Horde for the power users that feel they need a lot of features but that care less about the UI. Time to get our act together.

So what is the primary target of the redesign? First and foremost we want to unify the main user interfaces. At the moment we have the static application views, the dynamic webmailer, and the dynamic calender as the core parts. All looked somewhat different. These are the elements that we wish to give a consistent look. The special views such as the minimal webmailer or the smartphone UI will remain untouched.

We also hope the new design looks somewhat fresher than what we had before but please keep in mind that we are oriented towards people that use the interface for their daily work. We do not aim for a UI that looks like the last hype. It should be functional instead.

The Horde LLC has been the driving factor behind the redesign. At least financially. A subset of the Horde core developers started the LLC a while back as a contact point for people that want to pay for Horde support or feature development. A part of the money that such contracts pay goes to the developers dealing with the particular customer request. But another part of the money remains within the LLC. The idea is to use the latter to drive features that we consider to be important for Horde and its community. The redesign is the first project that has been financed this way. The Horde team tried finding designers interested in contributing to an Open Source project several times before. This was unsuccessful however and paying a designer for the work remained the only reasonable alternative.

We contracted No agency for the design. After several rounds of communication between them and all Horde developers we managed to end up with the draft displayed above. This has been converted to html and CSS this week and will be hammered into code during the next week by Jan Schneider. We do hope to present you with an alpha of Horde 5 - including the draft of the new design - on the 22nd May of 2012.

Feedback and comments - as usual - are welcome! [Less]

Horde 5 Preview: Sesha Inventory App 1.0 and updated Rdo library - Ralf Lang

Posted 12 days ago

Dear folks, I am very pleased to announce:
The Sesha Inventory application is ready for Horde 5 and it is in good shape. Sesha is a simple inventory keeping application which originally developed by Bo Daley and Andrew Coleman on Horde 3. The ... [More] product was never officially released but it went into production at several sites. Sesha release cycle can now start together with the Horde 5 Alpha release cycle.

Sesha inventory can be configured to hold any number of stock categories with any number and type of attributes.
Like the original version, Sesha for Horde 5 can provide its stock categories as ticket queues for the horde ticketing application whups.
There are a lot of plans and ideas for upcoming versions but for this time the focus was on finishing a releasable product.There are no surprises for existing users of Horde 3 based sesha. Most work happened invisibly under the hood:

The Horde_Template library was exchanged by new Horde_View code
A migration script for database was added
Users can keep their original Horde 3 Sesha tables and data.
The sql backend driver was completely reworked into a driver based on the Horde_Rdo ORM library The new Driver Api provides enhanced search capabilities but the current frontend doesn’t make use of it. I do not plan to add any features to the classic view but start working on an Ajax view once the Horde 5 Redesign is completed. This may ship with Sesha 1.1 later on.
Object oriented code has replaced complicated hashes in many places

The Horde Rdo library is the new work horse inside Sesha. Rdo means Rampage Data Objects and is a lightweight ORM layer by Horde founder Chuck Hagenbuch. It maps database tables to PHP Objects. This is similar to the ActiveRecord pattern. Each database row can be turned into one Rdo item. For Sesha and another – non-public – software project, some enhancements went into the Rdo library for Horde 5:

Rdo now provides a caching factory or root object which speeds up creation of mapper objects
Methods for add, removing or checking many-to-many relations have been added
A number of edge case bugs have been fixed

I think the Horde 5 release cycle will start with alpha1 releases sometime in May. I know we’re a little late but it’s worth the wait.
That said, I welcome any early testing or updates of the language files. Provided everything works as expected, Sesha will be shipped with Horde 5 for OpenSUSE 12.2 [Less]

Horde becomes biggest KDE sponsor! - Gunnar Wrobel

Posted 3 months ago



Here at CeBIT we support our friendly neighbor project with a constant and vital support of gummy bears. As anyone knows these sweet animals can make the difference between one line of brilliant code and a dreadful spaghetti mess. Thus it ... [More] is probably hard to deny that this fruitful collaboration turned Horde into one of the biggest KDE sponsors.

That being said: KDE, I'm already here, breakfast is ready ;)

Beside having fun in the open source area the second day was already packed with people here at CeBIT. We had plenty of Horde users which provided kind feedback. Some of them we could surprise with features they didn't know about. Others were happy to hear that "GPL" really means that they can use the software and modify it without being harassed with a lawsuit afterwards.

We had Horde newbies as well as free software newbies. Explaining how free software can result in a revenue was the easy part. Explaining why we have no strong interest in a product for obfuscating our code so that there is a decent protection against people trying to find security holes was ... sigh ... harder.

The most fascinating thing was a company that installed Horde and wants to run it from -25°C to 65°C - like putting Horde to the extreme. There were other extremes involved and I omit the details but it is always fascinating what people do with free software. [Less]

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