Current state of the Horde project

Posted on | December 12, 2008 |

A few days ago I wanted to have a look at the recent releases of IMP and Horde but the main website was down. Since it was a long time ago that I’ve been having a look at it, I was wondering if the project was shut down entirely. I worked with Horde a few years ago and I learned a lot from its code. They implemented some really nice OO stuff years before the PHP 5 release, before everyone was shouting ‘Frameworks are hot’ or ‘OO is a must’.

The wiki however was up and running, so were some of the mirrors.  More reassurance a few days later when I received some mails mentioning new releases for the core Horde projects and I also found this interview with Jan Schneider, the project lead in charge now. He talks about the current state of Horde and development going towards more AJAX support, better CalDAV and WebDAV support and continuing support for open protocols. So, Horde is somewhat under the radar compared to the other buzzword frameworks, but it’s alive. Luckily.

As as sidenote: the founder of Horde, Chuck Hagenbuch, also PEAR and Zend Framework contributor now apparently works for Blue State Digital, the techies behind the hugely succesfull my.barackobama.com . More on that here.

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