eHour development blog

I’m having fun with Gource on eHour’s SVN repository. Although it’s not that useful it looks very cool

After some silence eHour development is going strong again. Currently the code base is being cleaned up, moved the front-end to Wicket 1.4, prepare the project structure for easy switching between LDAP and internal user management, etc.

Check the progress on commit level: http://dev.ehour.nl/fisheye/
See the targetted roadmap of the next release: http://dev.ehour.nl/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10011
Code health quality: http://dev.ehour.nl/sonar/project/index/1

I did know that there were some hot discussions going on about Ubuntu’s 10.4 positioning of the window controls in the titlebar; they moved from the right to the left. However I thought that it was just an idea so I was in a bit of a shock when I upgraded to the latest beta and saw they they were actually at the left hand side…
Apart from something useless to get used to the whole UI becomes inconsistent as well; for example Chrome with it’s own titlebar has the min/max/close buttons on the right.

Luckily it’s easily fixed with

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string “menu:minimize,maximize,close,spacer”

Oh and if you run into any problems with installing fglrx, here’s a work around https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/546917

There’s a beta version of eHour with PostgreSQL available. For more info check this thread in the forum.

When you run into any problems, please use the forum to respond

With the recent new attempt of Microsoft to conquer the search engine market I wondered how often the Bing crawler hit http://www.ehour.nl versus Google’s bot.

The Bing bot identifies itself with msnbot/2.0 while Google’s crawler uses Googlebot.

Checking my log files for both crawlers:

grep -i msnbot\/2.0 ehour.nl-access_log* | wc -l
5727
grep -i googlebot ehour.nl-access_log* | wc -l
34912

5.727 hits from Bing, 34.912 from Google. That’s 6 times as much hits from Google than Bing’s bot. In all fairness Microsoft seem to use their old bot (msnbot/1.1) for Bing as well:

grep -i msnbot ehour.nl-access_log* | wc -l
18157

With 18.157 hits still not even close to Google’s bot. Can I conclude that Google’s index is 6 times the size of Bing or is Google’s crawler just a bit more aggressive aka up-to-date?

eHour 0.8.3 is released under the GPL license. For more information check the ehour site.

eHour 0.8.3 beta is now available, check the forum for more info !

Through an exploit in Mantis and a sloppy system configuration ehour.nl (the PHP website, not the time tracking application itself) got compromised. Everything’s back up again except for Mantis as I’m looking for a replacement.

I keep lacking the time to do a proper open source release of eHour. A proper developer site and mailinglist (developer mailinglist is at ehour_dev-subscribe _at_ lists.ehour.nl) will be up later this month, in the meantime you can access the SVN repo anonymously at:

http://svn.te-con.nl/repos/ehour/trunk (svn co http://svn.te-con.nl/repos/ehour/trunk) or http://dev.ehour.nl/fisheye/ when you prefer a webbased interface.

Building instructions can be found in the BUILDING.txt in the root of the source tree, when you have trouble with maven dependencies use this mirror in your settings.xml

[code lang="xml"]



Nexus
Nexus Public Mirror
http://dev.ehour.nl/nexus/content/groups/public
central



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eHour’s next version will move back to an OSI approved open source license again. The exact license hasn’t been determined yet although it will be most likely GPL.

This means that with the next version src packages are provided and anonymous access to our version control system is available (when you want to actively help with eHour send me an email at info@ehour.nl).