Insights into what moves us. Contributions from the Structr team and guests. The Structr Blog

Michael Volpert
20. February 2019

Quo Vadis Open Source Databases?

In the past few months, some open source software vendors in the database sector have decided to change their licensing policy and to introduce partly new but also more restrictive open source licensing models. In this article, the background of these changes and the options for action of the participants will be examined using the examples of MongoDB, Redis and Neo4j. In addition, the extent to which the changes made are in line with the principles of the open source movement will be…

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Michael Volpert
20. February 2019

Quo Vadis Open-Source-Datenbanken?

In den zurückliegenden Monaten haben sich einige Open-Source-Software-Anbieter aus dem Datenbankbereich dazu entschieden, ihre bisherige Lizenzpolitik zu ändern und zum Teil neuartige, aber auch restriktivere Open-Source-Lizenzmodelle einzuführen. In diesem Beitrag sollen die Hintergründe dieser Änderungen und die Handlungsoptionen der Beteiligten am Beispiel von MongoDB, Redis und Neo4j näher beleuchtet und diskutiert werden, inwiefern die vollzogenen Änderungen im Einklang mit den Prinzipien…

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Axel Morgner
12. February 2019

Axel Morgner
04. February 2019

Axel Morgner
19. September 2018

Kai Schwaiger
12. June 2018

Advanced Mail Functions

With bigger and bigger applications being built with Structr, it became evident that there was a need for more flexible ways of sending emails from within Structr than the two existing mail functions provided. Even simple concepts like multiple recipients, CC or BCC were impossible. So I sketched out a couple of ideas and discussed with the team how to make sending emails great again (SCNR).

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Axel Morgner
04. January 2018

Axel Morgner
16. December 2017

Die Qual der Wahl - Frontend-Technologien in 2017

Alle Jahre wieder wird man gefragt oder muss die Frage für eigene Projekte beantworten, welches denn aktuelle die Frontend-Technologie der Wahl ist. Schon lange wollte ich das einmal aufschreiben, damit ich nur noch Links versenden muss und eine Grundlage für zukünftige Antworten habe.

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Lukas Reich
05. December 2017

Performance Tuning of File Upload

About a year ago we updated our integrated file upload service with support for pure HTML file forms. That brought file uploads to Structr without you having to code one line of javascript.

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Kai Schwaiger
22. November 2017

User Interface for Virtual Types

Virtual Types have long been a hidden gem in Structrs API-Builder module (available in the Enterprise Edition). To make this powerful feature more widely known, we introduced a new management interface for virtual types.

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