Verfällt ein Big Ball of Mud?​

Durch den Fortschritt der Technologie und der Arbeit von Leuten wie Brooks, Buschmann und Booch wurde uns Entwicklern der Weg vom mikroskopischen ins makroskopische geebnet. Lang vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen schrankhohe Rechnersysteme nah an der Infrastruktur programmiert werden mußten.
Jedoch, wer heute den Mythischen Mann-Monat [📖MMM] liest und über die damals zur Verfügung stehende Technik schmunzelt, der wird spätestens bei der Aktualität der anderen erwähnten Probleme betreffs Organisation und Planung von Projekten rasch in die Gegenwart zurückgeworfen. Aus Eskapismus wird ein erhobener Finger: Das Lesevergnügen mahnt plötzlich zur Reflektion. Die Probleme von damals sind heute immer noch aktuell, und die Entwicklung der Technik verlief bis dato offensichtlich ungleich schneller als die von Planung und Organisation.

bcc-header issues with Horde_Mime_Mail​

This issue caused some uncertainty since I was not sure if the headers were broken due to missing quotes. See https://github.com/conjoon/php-lib-conjoon/issues/17.

Turns out that the way I assembled an email from a full text and converting it back to an instance of Horde_Mime_Mail does not consider the type of the internal representation of the bcc-field properly. It's related to Horde_Mail_Rfc822_List::_normalize and how values passed from Horde_Mime_Mail::send() are processed by it.

Fix: Missing favicon.ico in Sencha ExtJS production builds​

Fixing missing favicon.ico in Ext JS applications.

The original issue is tracked here: https://github.com/conjoon/conjoon/issues/24

The issue​

I’m not quite sure *when *and *why *it broke, but it looks like production builds of Sencha Ext JS applications do not contain any favicon.ico originally existing in the development build (anymore).

Releasing conjoon V1.0​

I’m happy to announce conjoon 1.0, the very first major release of the Open Source JavaScript Email client.

For updating to the latest version, simply use our installer. It will let you select the latest release when opting for the version to install.

Easily create Siesta tests for your applications​

Siesta is a JavaScript unit and UI testing tool originally written by Mats Bryntse which allows for running tests (for Ext JS (view-) components, amongst others) directly in the web browser (or headless in case you want to use it with your ci tools).

It is conjoon’s favorite among the various testing tools out there (we’re also working with Jest🃏 when there’s no Ext JS involved) and without it, it’s clear that End-to-End tests of some of the features and changes that have made it into conjoon would have slowed the project down due to their cyclic complexity — or even worse, make the software stuck in regression.

JavaScript, function-as-object and the internet​

The internet ™️ has caught up on an ad by FERCHAU, found — amongst others — somewhere within the depths of the Berlin subway.

conjoon installer updates​

Creating a custom labeled version of conjoon has never been easier.

The installer (i.e. initializer) for conjoon received an update to make setting up a local installation of the frontend more convenient and more intuitive.

Releasing conjoon 1.0.0-beta.0​

🎉 5 years after the (almost) first commit to conjoon’s new home, I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of the first public pre-release of **conjoon**, an open source email client built with JavaScript, PHP and great tools from the open source community.

To install the latest release on your local machine, type

$ npx create-conjoon@latest

then follow the instructions on screen.

Fix: Ext JS Simlets and omitting the status code​

I recently stumbled upon a mean error that was hard to track down. Luckily, the issue was caused by a simple carelessness regarding fully configured response-objects of Simlets used in the dev-environment of the conjoon-project and did not require any large refactoring.

The original issue is tracked here: https://github.com/conjoon/extjs-app-webmail/issues/196