The status of Mono in Fedora is sad. We cannot upgrade to the latest Mono versions because we require binary reference assemblies for the build, as described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436896#c91 My hope is that when .NET Core and msbuild become part
Migrating a forum from Discourse to Flarum
In 2014, I migrated the OpenPetra forum from phpBB to Discourse. The reason was that Discourse had a fresh look on the way how forums can be done, it had a nice design, and easy and modern user interface. Here
AL Coding: consume a web service from Dynamics NAV 2018 with POST and Basic Authentication
During our project with Dynamics NAV 2018, we needed to consume a web service from CleverReach (see documentation of their REST API: https://rest.cleverreach.com/howto/), so that we can synchronize the recipients of the newsletters. Here are now procedures that can be
AL Coding: Converting DateTime and UnixTime timestamps in Dynamics NAV 2018
Today, we had an issue that a web service returned a timestamp in unixtime format, ie. all seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. We would like to convert that timestamp to a DateTime variable in AL Code. We
Getting used to the AL language for Dynamics NAV 2018
In the previous post, Setting up Dynamics NAV 2018 for Testing and Development in Docker we have covered how to setup a development and testing environment, and had our first steps with Visual Studio Code to publish our first hello
Setting up Dynamics NAV 2018 for Testing and Development in Docker
In the past months, I have learned a lot about Dynamics NAV 2018. There are some examples available on the net, but not enough. So I will provide some examples on my blog. Let’s start with setting up the free
Developing on Windows for Dynamics NAV 2018
In the past weeks, I have been working on a deployment of Dynamics NAV 2018. This is quite a change for me, to work again on a Windows machine, and with closed source software. Fortunately, there are already some resources
Updated packages kolab-freebusy and guam in Kolab 16
Here comes a quick overview on recent updates to Kolab 16 packages. Please note: I am only using public information. I have no background knowledge about the releases. In the past days, the following packages have been updated: kolab-freebusy: https://obs.kolabsys.com/request/show/2183,
Updated packages roundcubemail-plugins-kolab and kolab-syncroton in Kolab 16
Here comes a quick overview on recent updates to Kolab 16 packages. Please note: I am only using public information. I have no background knowledge about the releases. In the past days, the following packages have been updated: roundcubemail-plugins-kolab: https://obs.kolabsys.com/request/show/2176, Update
Submitting patches to Kolab via Phabricator
This is an updated version of the post from July 2015: https://www.pokorra.de/2015/07/submitting-patches-to-kolab-via-phabricator/ For a description of phabricator, see the post from July 2015. Here are the updated instructions for using arcanist with CentOS7: yum install git vim php-cli python-pep8 #