Nuremberg, April 9th, 2024 – In an era where cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, Savoir-faire Linux, a leading provider in open-source technological innovation and software engineering for embedded systems across North America and Europe, is proud to announce the launch of its Cybersecurity professional services tailored specifically for product engineering and embedded systems. […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.7.0, which includes a few new features as well as bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Add bitbake environment scan for global variables Add skipped recipes to the tree view with skip reason Add support for latest Yocto devtool status output Add sanity check […]
Keeping up with our 2023 retrospectives, we wished to highlight the contributions we made throughout the year to the various open-source projects we use on a daily basis for our needs and those of our customers, or those in which we are strategically involved in their development or maintenance. As a member of the Yocto […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.6.0, which includes which a few new features, improvements to user experience, and minor bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Handle completion on bash simple variable expansion Handle keywords import, require and inherit in Bash/Python context Add SPDX license suggestions Show license description on […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.5.0, which includes a few new features as well as quality-of-life improvements and minor bug fixes. Here is the change log: Add Yocto variables renaming across a recipe file Add code suggestions for SRC_URI local files Add code suggestions for recipe names in variables (DEPENDS, RDEPENDS, […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.7.0, which includes a few new features as well as bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Add bitbake environment scan for global variables Add skipped recipes to the tree view with skip reason Add support for latest Yocto devtool status output Add sanity check […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.6.0, which includes which a few new features, improvements to user experience, and minor bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Handle completion on bash simple variable expansion Handle keywords import, require and inherit in Bash/Python context Add SPDX license suggestions Show license description on […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.5.0, which includes a few new features as well as quality-of-life improvements and minor bug fixes. Here is the change log: Add Yocto variables renaming across a recipe file Add code suggestions for SRC_URI local files Add code suggestions for recipe names in variables (DEPENDS, RDEPENDS, […]
Keeping up with our 2023 retrospectives, we wished to highlight the contributions we made throughout the year to the various open-source projects we use on a daily basis for our needs and those of our customers, or those in which we are strategically involved in their development or maintenance. As a member of the Yocto […]
Hello ! My name is Emma Falkiewitz and I am 21 years old. I am in my 4ᵉ year of computer science school at Compiègne University of Technology (the UTC) in France. I just finished my internship at Savoir-faire Linux where I worked on Jami. How did this career choice come about? In high school, […]
2023 was a very prolific year for Savoir-faire Linux. To mark the announcement of our sponsorship of the LF Energy Summit 2024, we were keen to share a retrospective of the conferences we took part of in 2023. With captivating projects thanks to our R&D investments and our customers, we were able to present our […]
Liferay gives us the possibility to add Oauth (OpenId connect) authentication out of the box. It’s also possible to give access to third-party applications via Oauth authentication. But what if you don’t want your user to log in to your portal with Oauth but still give them the possibility to enhance their experience by connecting […]
Look at how to set up an OAuth 2.0 authentication within Liferay to access Office 365 web services.
Since 2010, we have been training, coaching and accompanying a range of enterprises and organizations in their digital transformation based on Liferay Portal solutions. Having received a number of awards and observed the rising success of our clients, today, we have unreserved confidence in what we can offer and […]
The LDAPCon is an international conference on LDAP technology and the issues such as identity management, authentication and empowerment. LDAPCon is a biennial event and this year it will take place from 19 to 20 October in iconic city of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, where the business of the European Union and NATO is run. In the […]
This article aims to explain how to automate the installation as well as configuration of Nexus’s Repository Manager version 3.x with Ansible. Ansible is a deployment tool, which enables playbooks to automate applications […]
We are happy to have completed a joint project – an informative video – with Microsoft on the relevance and significance of open source technologies in the Azure cloud environment. First Microsoft Open Source Partner in Canada We are the first “Microsoft Open Source Partner” in Canada. This partnership has been a testimony to our […]
Android development is always moving forward with new features to make building apps easier; UI construction with compose, dependency injection with Hilt, game development extensions, emoji compatibility libraries, the list goes on. New projects have no concerns leveraging these sorts of features. However, legacy projects have to find a balance when migrating to new software […]
Savoir-faire Linux participated in the tenth edition of DrupalCamp Montréal, which was held this year at Concordia University. It was the occasion to catch up with a good proportion of the Drupal developer community in Montreal, to exchange ideas with other companies that work with this technology, and to have an overview of how Drupal […]
When It Comes to Websites, Page Speed Matters! This article is motivated by our website project accomplished by our Integration Platforms and AI Department using Liferay 7 (the latest version of Liferay Portal) for one of our clients– a large Canadian corporation in telecommunications and media industry. Alexis, our front-end developer, shares with you his first-hand experience […]
Las Vegas, January 9, 2019 – Exhibiting at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Savoir-faire Linux, a Quebec-based consulting firm for more than 20 years and an expert in the free software industry in Canada, launches Jami, the universal and autonomous communication application. Aimed at the general public as […]
Push Notifications: A New Feature Added to Ring Project Push notifications are essential part of the effective end-user experience on mobile platforms. They tend to boost the app engagement and users find them useful and handy as they ease their communications. Although push notifications are widely considered an advantage for most apps, they are regarded […]
On February 3rd and 4th, two members of Ring’s development team took part in FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting), a major event for free software developers, is held annually since 2000 during the first week-end of February at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Sébastien Blin, a Ring […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.7.0, which includes a few new features as well as bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Add bitbake environment scan for global variables Add skipped recipes to the tree view with skip reason Add support for latest Yocto devtool status output Add sanity check […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.6.0, which includes which a few new features, improvements to user experience, and minor bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Handle completion on bash simple variable expansion Handle keywords import, require and inherit in Bash/Python context Add SPDX license suggestions Show license description on […]
What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.5.0, which includes a few new features as well as quality-of-life improvements and minor bug fixes. Here is the change log: Add Yocto variables renaming across a recipe file Add code suggestions for SRC_URI local files Add code suggestions for recipe names in variables (DEPENDS, RDEPENDS, […]
Nuremberg, April 9th, 2024 – In an era where cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, Savoir-faire Linux, a leading provider in open-source technological innovation and software engineering for embedded systems across North America and Europe, is proud to announce the launch of its Cybersecurity professional services tailored specifically for product engineering and embedded systems. […]
Savoir-faire Linux is happy to introduce the v2.4.0 release of the official Yocto Project extension for VS Code. These developments were carried out as part of the investment provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund to the Yocto Project to improves the long-term sustainability of the project by attracting a new generation of developers. The changelog […]
Savoir-faire Linux is proud to introduce the v2.3.0 release of the official Yocto Project extension for VS Code. These developments were carried out as part of the investment provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund to the Yocto Project to improves the long-term sustainability of the project by attracting a new generation of developers. The changelog […]
Savoir-faire Linux is proud to announce the v2.2.0 release of the official Yocto Project extension for VS Code. These developments were carried out as part of the investment provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund to the Yocto Project to improves the long-term sustainability of the project by attracting a new generation of developers. The changelog […]
Power saving has always been a major preoccupation in embedded systems, as by definition, they could have energy constraint. Of course now, energy saving is still on the heart of the discussions. Energy saving is always a set of compromise. In terms of system or peripherals availability, time to wake… In this blog, we will […]
The Yocto Project’s Five-Year Plan The Yocto Project is one of the most successful technologies to build reliable industrial-grade embedded Linux distributions. In order for the project to keep growing, the Sovereign Tech Fund has decided on a Five-Year Plan that shapes its stability and attractiveness for the years to come. These developments were carried […]
Keeping up with our 2023 retrospectives, we wished to highlight the contributions we made throughout the year to the various open-source projects we use on a daily basis for our needs and those of our customers, or those in which we are strategically involved in their development or maintenance. As a member of the Yocto […]
Hello ! My name is Emma Falkiewitz and I am 21 years old. I am in my 4ᵉ year of computer science school at Compiègne University of Technology (the UTC) in France. I just finished my internship at Savoir-faire Linux where I worked on Jami. How did this career choice come about? In high school, […]
2023 was a very prolific year for Savoir-faire Linux. To mark the announcement of our sponsorship of the LF Energy Summit 2024, we were keen to share a retrospective of the conferences we took part of in 2023. With captivating projects thanks to our R&D investments and our customers, we were able to present our […]
Our personal and professional lives are often punctuated by encounters with men and women who have left their mark and inspired us, whether through their skills, their social or political commitment, their vision or their leadership. We have this tradition at Savoir-faire Linux of paying tribute to some of these remarkable personalities and highlighting their […]
Because the UX is not limited to the connected world, if you go to Miami one day and you have to take the train, look no further: opt for the Brightline. This rail network has been able to include UX and the customer experience in its process and it makes the train ride extremely pleasant. […]
Tout le monde UX, abbreviated TLM UX, is the meeting UX (User Expericence – User Experience) of the Montreal scene. Offering conferences on the subject every 2 months, TLM UX organizes meetings between enthusiasts, professionals or just curious people about the field of User Experience. Having as partners the big names of Montreal agencies like […]
From July 28th to August 5th, one of our team members, Hugo Lefeuvre (also a Debian Developer on his free time), attended DebConf18, the annual Debian Developer’s Conference, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. During this week, Hugo spent time preparing and giving a talk about Ring, hacking on Debian packages, discussing free software communication and distributed networks with fellow developers and users. […]
Savoir-faire Linux and ICTC celebrate the first cohorts of the successful graduates from the Small Business Digitization Initiative (SBDI). The first students, the pioneers, started last January their six-month journey which can position them as the next generation of digitization talents. They went through an intense in-class training helping them understand how […]
During August 5-12, we actively participated in DebConf17, in several professional capacities: platinum sponsor, presenter, workshop and career fair participant, as well as social event host. Debconf17 is the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference, with over 405 people […]
Liferay gives us the possibility to add Oauth (OpenId connect) authentication out of the box. It’s also possible to give access to third-party applications via Oauth authentication. But what if you don’t want your user to log in to your portal with Oauth but still give them the possibility to enhance their experience by connecting […]
Look at how to set up an OAuth 2.0 authentication within Liferay to access Office 365 web services.
Since 2010, we have been training, coaching and accompanying a range of enterprises and organizations in their digital transformation based on Liferay Portal solutions. Having received a number of awards and observed the rising success of our clients, today, we have unreserved confidence in what we can offer and […]
Montreal, QC – (October 11, 2017) – Savoir-faire Linux – a Canadian leader in providing expertise on a range of open source technologies to enable digital transformation strategies – announces today its participation as a Gold Sponsor at this year’s Liferay Symposium North America, hosted by Liferay. Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on […]
The Thumbnail Generator aims to improve and facilitate the generation of thumbnails provided by Liferay. This plugin was created during a project requiring a large number of thumbnails with precise dimensions in order to minimize the loading time of the web pages. Currently, Liferay is only capable of generating two different sizes of thumbnails, when […]
When it comes to deploying a common Java server on a common cloud infrastructure, a range of possibilities crosses one’s mind. This article presents some feedback on a particular, real-life, case of deploying Liferay Digital Experience (DXP, aka. Liferay 7 EE) on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Initial Shopping List Liferay DXP, with Enterprise Subscription, fitting […]
I’m writing this note in response to Dwight Fischer’s post on ERP trends for Education. Dwight is CIO at Dalhousie University, and IT leader among his Canadian peers. There have been conversations, also largely led by ERP vendors such as Ellucian and Oracle, about the cloudification of ERP systems (or so-called Student Information Systems). Software […]
While the IT sector is propelling industry transformation, business owners are still struggling to capture the benefits of digitizing their business. What are the IT trends that really matter?
The big issue at the Liferay North America Symposium this year is the upcoming final release of Liferay 7 which will be introduced for the first time here.
The LDAPCon is an international conference on LDAP technology and the issues such as identity management, authentication and empowerment. LDAPCon is a biennial event and this year it will take place from 19 to 20 October in iconic city of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, where the business of the European Union and NATO is run. In the […]
This article aims to explain how to automate the installation as well as configuration of Nexus’s Repository Manager version 3.x with Ansible. Ansible is a deployment tool, which enables playbooks to automate applications […]
We are happy to have completed a joint project – an informative video – with Microsoft on the relevance and significance of open source technologies in the Azure cloud environment. First Microsoft Open Source Partner in Canada We are the first “Microsoft Open Source Partner” in Canada. This partnership has been a testimony to our […]
The city of Villeurbanne (France) is interested in open source technologies and has chosen Lemon LDAP::NG to control its users’ access rights. The city of Villeurbanne had many web applications where the authentication was already delegated to a central CAS server (Central Authentication Services), modified to Villeurbanne’s needs, to give access to current internal users […]
la conférence LDAPCon 2015 sur LDAP et les questions de gestion des identités, d’authentification et d’habilitation, est l’occasion de rencontrer les acteurs les plus importants du domaine…
After months of negotiation, the Red Hat Microsoft cloud partnership was announced on November 4th. This agreement of historic proportions heralds radical changes in the global computing ecosystem. It will have significant impacts on many organizations in Quebec and elsewhere in the world. This partnership deals with two important elements: Public cloud with Azure Microsoft’s […]
OpenStack is the de facto cloud computing standard. In many cases, organizations only need a simple version of OpenStack. Keep it simple, be safe…
LDAPCon 2015, a very important event for the LDAP community which meets every two years to exchange the news and give life to this standard.
Québec 24/7 (quebec247.org) est un tableau de bord public et ouvert permettant de superviser en permanence différentes métriques disponibles au Québec.
Android development is always moving forward with new features to make building apps easier; UI construction with compose, dependency injection with Hilt, game development extensions, emoji compatibility libraries, the list goes on. New projects have no concerns leveraging these sorts of features. However, legacy projects have to find a balance when migrating to new software […]
Savoir-faire Linux participated in the tenth edition of DrupalCamp Montréal, which was held this year at Concordia University. It was the occasion to catch up with a good proportion of the Drupal developer community in Montreal, to exchange ideas with other companies that work with this technology, and to have an overview of how Drupal […]
When It Comes to Websites, Page Speed Matters! This article is motivated by our website project accomplished by our Integration Platforms and AI Department using Liferay 7 (the latest version of Liferay Portal) for one of our clients– a large Canadian corporation in telecommunications and media industry. Alexis, our front-end developer, shares with you his first-hand experience […]
Web Development Getting Started with Server-Side Rendering in Angular By Kévin Barralon This week we released a tutorial for developers using the Angular JavaScript framework to set them up with a pre-configured server-side rendering environment. This environment allows for the pre-rendering of an Angular site so that its contents can be made visible to robots […]
Server-Side Rendering Management: An Angular’s Novelty Imposing a Challenge Angular is a framework using the TypeScript Programming Language. Its 5th version (pentagonal-donut) was released in November 2017, containing new features and bugfixes. It is accompanied by the command line tool Angular CLI and new features such as a server-side rendering framework that has become very popular within the community of Angular […]
Design What Is Design System? By Patrick Bracquart For several years now, the complexity of the websites and applications has pushed us towards rethinking the concept of design, as well as the methodologies we use in the design process. This rethink is pushed by an ever-expanding field of necessary skills and positions in design such […]
PyCon 2017 (Part 2!) Talk: “Double Click: Continue Building Better CLIs” Summarized by Kévin Barralon This PyCon Canada talk was a presentation of Click, a Python package that allows you to create CLIs (Command-Line Interfaces) with only a few lines of code. Click is simple and easy to use, in that the configuration of commands […]
Special Edition on PyConCa 2017 This week, we attended PyCon Canada which started on November 18 and lasted through 21. We are also proud and happy that we played a role in sponsoring this dynamic event. In this Special Edition of Press Review Inno, you find articles from our SFLers who actively participated in the […]
Mobility Generic Protocols and Type Erasure in Swift By Thibault Wittemberg With Swift, you can define protocols by associating one or more generic types. These types are defined using the “associatedtype” keyword. The name “Generic Type” is a bit misused here. We should actually talk about a placeholder for a reserved type. Indeed, we will see that […]
Las Vegas, January 9, 2019 – Exhibiting at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Savoir-faire Linux, a Quebec-based consulting firm for more than 20 years and an expert in the free software industry in Canada, launches Jami, the universal and autonomous communication application. Aimed at the general public as […]
Push Notifications: A New Feature Added to Ring Project Push notifications are essential part of the effective end-user experience on mobile platforms. They tend to boost the app engagement and users find them useful and handy as they ease their communications. Although push notifications are widely considered an advantage for most apps, they are regarded […]
On February 3rd and 4th, two members of Ring’s development team took part in FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting), a major event for free software developers, is held annually since 2000 during the first week-end of February at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Sébastien Blin, a Ring […]
Ring keeps surprising communication experts and enthusiasts! Ring is now available on Android TV box and other smart TVs. Ring has become the only communication software available on the Google Play Store for Android TVs, since the discontinuation of support for the TV version of Skype in June 2016. This new release is quite different […]
July 21, 2017 – Savoir-faire Linux releases the stable version of Ring: Ring 1.0 – Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Ring is a free/libre and universal communication platform that preserves the users’ privacy and freedoms. It is a GNU package. It runs on multiple platforms; and, it can be used for texting, calls, and video chats more privately, more […]
Discussions constructives avec l équipe de @SFLinux qui utilise Tuleap pour le projet #Ring. Merci! #OSSPARIS16 pic.twitter.com/5QRERzOXrk — Tuleap Agile & Libre (@TuleapOpenALM) 16 novembre 2016 Last November, our Ring development team met with Enalean’s. This company develops Tuleap, the software development project management tool we use for Ring. Here is the story of our […]
Ring’s beta 2 version is now available on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). It’s not only a great step forward for Ring, an official GNU package, but a technical success for our development team. This release of the beta 2 is the work of collaborative development between Savoir-faire Linux and the community of developers all […]
Blockchain technology brings on a new revolution, as its advocates write on every wall, it is likely to deeply change our verticaly-shaped society. Savoir-faire Linux uses its mechanism to develop Ring distributed ledger and users ID management. Blockchain is the technology on which Bitcoin is based. This digital cryptocurrency displays both fear and covetness among […]
Since its inception, Ring’s features and users have significantly increased. Savoir-faire Linux’s team of experts has recently released the Bêta 2 version offering without an exception new possibilities. One account, many devices This new release allows users to benefit from a new feature: multiple connection. As in centralized messaging systems, Ring now allows the connection […]