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Mobile browser support |
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By Paul Rony on
11/18/2007 1:31 PM
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A customer recently inquired about our support of a mobile browser. My immediate answer was no, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this was one of the features we wanted to add after migrating to .NET 2.0 MasterPages. Feature creep is a terrible thing, so I'm not going to call this feature creep. I'm going to call it a re-prioritization of a planned feature.
The cool thing is that we were able to create a new master page for the mobile browser. This means that 95% of our code went unchanged. We did need to modify our dynamic view generation to separate fields by rows instead of columns and we were compelled to c ...
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PDF Invoices coming soon |
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By Paul Rony on
10/24/2007 7:27 PM
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We have a number of big projects that occupy our time, but we were able to slip-in one long-overdue feature. When we designed the reporting engine in SplendidCRM to be based on Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL), we knew that we would one day be able to import RDL files created by the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. That day has arrived.
I'm happy to report that we are testing a build that allows you to create invoices using a full-fledged report designer, and import the report files into SplendidCRM for execution. SplendidCRM has a basic built-in report designer, but it is only useful to create tabular reports. With the ability to import report files, you can create freeform reports, like the kind typically used to generate quotes or invoices. These reports can even embed images so that your invoices would be nothing less than stunning.
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Importing language packs |
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By Paul Rony on
8/22/2007 10:05 PM
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Importing language packs just got easier. In the next release of SplendidCRM, we have provided the ability to download and install SugarCRM Language Packs directly from SugarForge in a single click. The SugarCRM language packs are not perfect, but they are a great start.
We have already updated our demo server and imported a number of language packs including Hungarian, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, German and Hebrew. We still have a little more work to do in order to support right-to-left languages, but the system otherwise looks great.
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Amazon Web Services |
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By Paul Rony on
8/10/2007 2:46 AM
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The day started with the goal of posting a new VHD that includes Visual Studio 2005 Pro configured to compile and debug the latest SplendidCRM build. The day ended with migration to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service).
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Converting Web Application Projects to Web Site Projects |
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By Paul Rony on
6/27/2007 1:38 AM
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We had a customer that was having trouble with the prerequisites to load and debug the SplendidCRM project. First you start with Visual Studio 2005 Professional, then you add the Web Application Projects add-in, which incidentally requires a patch before it will install. It seems simple enough but this person was still unable to load the project without the pesky Convert dialog appearing. If configured properly, the SplendidCRM project should load with just a warning about being unable to attach to our version control system, so the presence of the Convert dialog suggests that the Web Application Projects add-in was not functioning.
Instead of wasting co ...
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In the beginning . . . |
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By Paul Rony on
5/1/2007 12:41 AM
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In honor of the SplendidCRM 1.4 release, I’m going to post an email that I sent to John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Rony
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:26 PM
To: john@sugar.com
Subject: Introduction to SplendidCRM
John Roberts,
I'm working on a project that might interest you. As a personal challenge, I've decided to port your SugarCRM application from a LAMP implementation to a Microsoft .NET 2.0 implementation. My original goal was to learn the new features of .NET 2.0 and, in most cases, the only way to learn is to create a real and complete application. It then occurred to me that the results could be a showcase on how to convert a LAMP project to .NET and how much better, in my opinion, the application would be because of it.
I simp ...
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SplendidCRM Open-Source 1.4 Beta release |
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By Paul Rony on
3/19/2007 12:55 AM
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We are finally ready to show version 1.4. We have been taking our time to release it simply to gain confidence in all the technologies we have integrated.
Converting to MasterPages required us to edit every ASPX file. We should be able to duplicate all the existing SugarCRM themes, but we have been more focused on stability.
WebParts required that we write a Personalization Provider. It was surprisingly easy to integrate ASP.NET 2.0 personalization into our existing user and role management.
AJAX was a last-minute inclusion. Microsoft recently released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and we could not resist taking advantage of the technology. The beauty of ASP.NET AJAX is that it takes very little code in order to implement. Actually, with version 1.4, we are just testing the waters, so we have only sprinkled a little AJAX on the home page and the dashboard. In the ...
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Sneak preview of 1.4 |
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By Paul Rony on
1/21/2007 3:54 PM
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We've been busy the last couple of months integrating SplendidCRM with Great Plains Accounting, but we took some time out to update the Web1.4 tree.
We started the Web1.4 node many months ago to take advantage of some of the major advances in .NET 2.0, such as MasterPages, Themes, WebParts and AJAX. Most of the MasterPages and Themes work was completed a few months ago and needed just a little more work to get the menus to function properly.
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Migration to SourceGear's Vault 3.5 is complete |
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By Paul Rony on
11/10/2006 4:08 AM
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We have been planning this migration for more than a month. In that time we have been upgrading our servers with bigger hard disks and more RAM.
The migration did not go as smoothly as we had hoped, but at least we can breath now that the migration is complete. The main problem we ran into was with one particular node in our project tree that was not accessible from the COM interface that SourceSafe provides. After several failed migration attempts, we finally followed a tip on the SourceGear forum to backup and restore the SourceSafe database using SourceSafe utilities.
Sadly, the import utility was not able to migrate all of the labels.
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