LibreOffice CMIS server connection feature suffered a severe disease since the begining: it was not able to connect to servers using HTTPS. First a workaround was added for invalid certificates, but the problem also existed for valid ones as described by fdo#72277.

After several months of inactivity, I finally …

I am now working on libvirt and the tools gravitating around it for almost a year and still haven't blogged about anything related to it. As a first post on virtualization, I'll tell you how to migrate your LXC container to use the libvirt goodness.

In order to achieve the …

I just rebased the feature/cmis branch hosting Cuong's great work and some other interesting improvements of the existing CMIS feature. Concretely, this means that with master builds you can now:

• Connect to Google Drive through the CMIS feature. The UI for the connection may still need to be …

After quite a long time alternating intensive hacking and inactivity, libcmis 0.4.0 is finally out and brings quite a number of great new features. The hightlight of this release is of course the introduction of the Google Drive protocol as a CMIS binding by Cao Cuong Ngo for …

Michael asked me this week to provide some screenshots of my hackweek work on a GVFS backend for CMIS. Sadly I had none and switched to openSUSE Factory in the mean time so I had to update my code for gvfs master branch. I also had an annoying bug when …

At SUSE, we recently had a Hackweek. It’s one week for all developers employed by SUSE to hack on any innovative open source project they want. Last years, I worked on libcmis and libcmis-c. And this year, I started implementing a GVFS backend for CMIS using libcmis-c. GVFS is …

Since the last blog post, quite some nice things happened: I moved to a new house, we released LibreOffice 4.0.0 fantastic release and Markus helped me write better unit tests for libcmis.In this post, I’ld like to give some details on these new unit tests. To …

I know it's already late, but you know how it is for hackers: we are delaying stuffs to continue hacking until we can't delay anymore. It's only a week before Google mentor summit, and the time for a LibreOffice GSoc 2012 wrap-up has come.
This year we had 10 students …

Libcmis 0.3.0 just hatched and will bring a whole lot of change to the way you connect to your ECM. Here is are the cool new features that were added in this version:

• WebService binding is implemented at the same level than the Atom binding
• The session factory …

Since already a few weeks I am hacking on getting LibreOffice to integrate as smoothly as possible with ECMs. First Martin Richard and Julien Levesy - students at INSA Lyon - reworked the LibreOffice internal file picker dialog to integrate a places list. After a few more work on it we had …