Over the last week, several commits have been made to the repositories hosting Beatnik and ldap2dns that have enabled IPv6 support in those applications. These changes come after several years of being on the "To-do" list and Alkaloid Networks is very excited to announce this key change in support of the future of the Internet. At this point the changes seem to be working, but feedback is, as always, appreciated. Look for IPv6 to be officially supported in the upcoming ldap2dns release version 0.5.0 and Beatnik 1.0.

Beatnik, The Horde project's DNS record manager, has made great strides over the last two years. The UI got the drastic overhaul it so badly needed. Some really helpful ease-of-use features were added like autogeneration from a template and one-click serial updating. Per-domain security can allow delegating responsibility of zone management to different Horde users. An, of course, many, many bugs were fixed along the way.

To take advantage of these exciting new features, check out the latest code from the repository for each application. ldap2dns is hosted in Alkaloid Networks' Subversion repository at http://svn.alkaloid.net/gpl while Beatnik is hosted in Horde's Git repository.

This is a quick update to talk about the recently released OS X Widget for entering time into Hermes: Sandals. Sandals was checked into the Horde CVS repository last night and is now ready for use. Hermes, the Horde timetracking application, can be used to track time against a variety of projects, clients, and deliverables (including tickets and todos kept within Horde).
Hermes achieves this integration by taking advantage of Horde's excellent inter-application API functionality. Sandals takes advantage of Hermes using Horde's XML-RPC exposure of application APIs. While Sandals is a bit rough around the edges (especially when it comes to catching and displaying helpful error messages) it does work well and can be used out-of-the-box. Check it out by grabbing the latest CVS version of Hermes and look in the scripts/ directory for Sandals.wdgt.

In addition to Sandals I wanted to announce a recent Codelet upload. checkubc.rb is a Ruby script that will monitor OpenVZ virtual machines (either from the host or within the guest) and report when a container gets too close to its configured limits. It will additionally send an alert whenever a failcnt increases. Check out checkubc in the Codelets section of this website.

Looking to add online video support to Footstops.com, I scoured the internet looking for an online video plugin for the WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE. Everything I found was very insecure, opening up dangerous tags such as <object> and <embed>, to the end user. I wrote mceOnlineVideos as a plugin to add Google and YouTube Videos but uses an image placeholder and replaces the image during output. This keeps the content safe from malicious users but still very usable to end users.

See mceOnlineVideos in action at Footstops or read more about it and download it here.

In other news, there have been some cool developments in the last little while. Ben Klang, an active developer for Horde, is now hosting the main CVS tree for Horde right here on Alkaloid Networks and Jeff Smith is opening up Realclip development again for use in a number of large-scale projects on the horizon... but I'll let those guys fill us in on the details.

Alkaloid Networks is proud to announce the merger of Lucid Interactive's Docupedia. Originally started by Alkaloid Fellows Jeff Smith and Bryan Rite, the Docupedia has sustained regular and growing traffic since its founding. Key articles such as the WEP cracking tutorial have been mentioned on Digg.com as well as other internet news sites. Now the Docupedia has come home to roost and can be found at its new URL docs.alkaloid.net. Welcome Docupedia!

This was an excellent opportunity to resurrect the once-lost Solaris LDAP client with OpenLDAP server How-To. Unfortunately, due to an oversight during the last site conversion, the document was delinked from the Projects page. It has now found its new home on the Alkaloid Docupedia and hopefully will continue to expand to cover Kerberos integration.

As our final piece of housekeeping news, the PodMail demo has been restored to full functionality. While the RSS feeds continued to operate, we had disabled the phone-in side due to technical changes. If you haven't yet checked out the demo, we encourage you to do so now. See the PodMail site for more information.