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Tag: turba

  • Time, it needs time

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    As I am writing this, bug reports from users are coming in on last night’s updates to Turba Addressbook. In Turba we first rolled out our new way of date handling and upgrading existing user-selected date formats in backends. The initial results were … mixed. Horde comes from the strftime era, a way of formatting…

  • Custom iCalendar data in Kronolith & Nag

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    The iCalendar exchange format is everywhere in Horde’s calendar (kronolith) and tasks (nag) apps. It is offered for manual import/export. It is the centerpiece of the CalDAV synchronisation protocol and various APIs of these apps. The format also plays a role in email invitiations and updates sent via iTip. It is a very powerful and…

  • Turba Addressbook (II) – Architecture

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    In the first chapter we looked at Turba’s features, APIs, Protocols. In the current installment, I want to present the concepts and structure of the code. Turba is among the oldest horde applications. As such, it contains parts from various stages of Horde’s development.