Tag Archives: OpenIT

OpenIT & Me

In case you’re an OpenIT user and wondering why OpenIT has been stuck at version 2.1.3, it’s all my fault. I’ve been too busy to get 2.1.3 polished up for release as 2.2. What’s worse is that Klaus, an OpenIT … Continue reading

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Breaking the Law

I’m such a rebel. If you don’t want to read my long winded rambling posts, let me summarize: I want to use icons from the CC-SA licensed Tango project in OpenIT which uses the GPL. Some people say they’re incompatible, … Continue reading

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OpenIT has a demo site!

I finally got around to setting up a demo site for OpenIT over on SourceForge. Not very much hacking was required. I actually fixed a couple bugs in tools/setup.php because of the experience. I had to add define(‘DB_DATAOBJECT_NO_OVERLOAD’,true); to the … Continue reading

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PEAR Bliss

Just updated the PEAR packages in OpenIT using my handy little openitPEAR.php tool. Found a little bug in it, fixed it in 30 seconds, and updated OpenIT’s PEAR packages in another 30 seconds. After many months of dreading bundling PEAR … Continue reading

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OpenIT Adoption

I’m preparing a new testing version of OpenIT, 2.1.1, right now. This test release is unique because the majority of bugs it fixes were found by people testing 2.1.0 and providing enough details to make fixing them easy. While OpenIT … Continue reading

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Including PEAR with OpenIT

OpenIT now seems to do the same thing a number of other PHP projects do: bundle PEAR packages. I made a script to make keeping PEAR in OpenIT up-to-date simple: openitPEAR.php This script is for developer use only, and allows … Continue reading

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