my 2 cents

After two weeks of nice holidays, I’m back online.

My father became 70 and we spend one week together as family to celebrate this. The other week we visited friends and enjoyed our free time.

Now, back in Office, I noticed that my colleges turned Tine 2.0 an other time inside out. I had to dig through more than 300 commits. Many cool new internal features and again simplifications in the backend. So I’ll have to spend a day to adopt the tasks application to the new standards.

Really cool is the new schemaproc we have now. We can manage tables and relations in a really advanced way. We havn’t found this features, needed for a complex application design, in the existing PHP frameworks and so we are pretty exited about the results. Maybe we can bring this stuff into the Zend Framework.

Also noteworthy are the beginnings of setup and migration. In short it should be possible to install Tine 2.0 without an existing egroupware installation. Also the migration of existing data from egroupware is on the way. Maybe I can manage to finish the infolog->tasks import this week. Really exiting with this migration approach is, that we are able to migrate from different databases/versions easily. So let’s se what future brings

Also during my holidays, the usability efforts became a lot more concrete. I even found the first interface prototype in my Inbox. Next week I’ll start to implement the first results from this in the addressbook.

As a conclusion of all this progress I take that I realy should take more holidays, as Tine develops great in those times