Archive for 2010

Am 21. August 2010 war mal wieder FrOSCon in St. Augustin (bei Bonn). Und ich war dabei, vor allem um einige Open Source Projekte näher kennen zu lernen, Leute zu treffen und vor allem, um dem Redmine-Vortrag von Felix Schäfer zu lauschen.

Aus Gründen war der Felix leider verhindert, sodass ich mich spontan bereit erklärt habe, den Vortrag zu übernehmen. Damit hatte ich meinen ersten Talk auf einer Konferenz. Und mit nur ca. 3 Stunden Vorbereitung war der dann sogar ganz okay.

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Recently, I released a new version of the Redmine Checkout plugin. This release sports a nifty protocol selector with buttons styled entirely in CSS (as good as it gets). To be able to support as many browsers as possibly while not having to fall back to pixel graphics I had to apply some tricks which I want to describe here.

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Currently, Opensolaris does not provide a Postfix package. Although there exist packages on blastwave and on OpenCSW they are either outdated or do not play well together.

Fortunately, Ihsan Dogan did create a script to create Postfix packages from scratch as well as some precompiled packages. Unfortunately, these packages miss SASL support. So I was in need to compile these myself.

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Opensolaris has done some huge steps towards being usable by a normal person. Sadly there are still some things lacking sane defaults which I try to provide here. I will try to update this post if I stumble over more of these hiccups.

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