Toolware Pty has written a very cool Thunderbird Extension for Zimbra called Zindus. It is open-source software and runs on all Thunderbird platforms including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Thunderbird users take note! There’s an awesome extension that syncs your contacts between Zimbra and Thunderbird. It syncs everything from Address Books to your GAL (Global […]
The Leader…Looking back at Zimbra in 2007
2007 was the best year for Zimbra yet. We thought we would take a moment to recap the great things that happened this year. Here are the events that were big milestones for us. (more…)
Why we switched to Jetty
One of the most important traits of Web 2.0 applications is low user-perceived latency in UI update, which usually requires low latency event notification from server to client. However due to the limitations of the HTTP protocol, a server cannot initiate communication with a client as events occur. (more…)
One of the Coolest Things Ever.
It’s been tough keeping this one under wraps because it’s so cool. Yep: It’s in Zimbra 5.0. (more…)
Video Mashups Killed the Radio Star
Zimlets are great, they allow developers to integrate our mail UI with all kinds of third party web services and APIs. But what about integrating third party management consoles with Zimbra Admin UI? In version 5 Zimbra Admin UI is an open platform that allows developers to integrate ZCS Admin UI with other management consoles […]
From Gzip to JSMin to Shrinksafe to YUI Compressor
When Zimbra started out we had only a few thousand lines of JavaScript and didn’t really optimize our JavaScript at all. As we added features to the Zimbra Web Client, the code base grew pretty fast. On the client/end user side, raw Javascript in hundreds of script tags were received. This came out to be […]