eHour development blog

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).

To speed up the eHour releases we’re looking for experienced Java developers who want help out fixing bugs and implementing new functionality.
When you have experience with Java 5, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Wicket, Maven 2, MySQL, Tomcat and HTML & CSS and want to help out implementing new features and/or fixing bugs, sign up!

For more information about joining the eHour development team check this page

eHour 0.8.3 is coming ! Well at least it’s in development but work is being done. 0.8.3 will be a minor release again meaning that no big features will be added but more smaller bug fixes. The following things will change:

• Assign all users to a project
  Currently you can only assign new users to a project by default but not assign all existing users to a project – this will be fixed.
• Migrate data from standalone to MySQL
  A small tool will be added that allows you to migrate data from standalone eHour to the MySQL driven version.
• Department filter on reports
  It is broken right now, will be fixed.
• Filtering of inactive assignments
  Inactive assignments clutter up the available screen space, option to filter them will be added.
• Wrong day displayed in per day comments
  The wrong day of the week is displayed in the per day comments pop up
• Improve Tomcat settings
  The datasource settings for Tomcat are not ideal which results in closed database connections after some inactivity. Better datasource settings and per Tomcat (5.5 and 6.0) version will be added.

No release date is yet known so stay tuned !

eHour 0.8 is out ! For more info check the release notes