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A Shorter Letter

Posted Mon, 07/23/2012 - 17:44 by jrogelstad
Enyo, Hewlett-PackardA couple years ago I learned of what is now one of my favorite quotes from one of our senior developers, Gil Moskowitz. I asked him why a particular development resulted in so much code and complexity. He referred to a quote from Blaise Pascal: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
 
As many of you know, we've been hard at work on our new Mobile Web client. For much of this year the plan has been to base the client on Blossom, a fork of SproutCore, that we sponsored to evolve that framework to a mobile-ready platform. We debuted our new client running on Blossom at the OSBC and FluentJS conferences in May. A funny thing happened on the way to fame and fortune at those conferences. We discovered a better framework called Enyo.
 
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Go Live: Are We Ready?

Posted Fri, 12/30/2011 - 09:13 by matherton

The clients I work with frequently ask me this question once we are deep into the implementation.  I never give a straight answer.  You see, I believe you should know if you are ready and with the right preparation you will.  So let's take a high level look at what must happen before you will be confident enough to go live.

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Enhanced Commissions

Related to Features Incident 14761.

The current xTuple sales rep commissions feature has limited functionality that may not meet the needs of businesses with more complex and dynamic comissioning requirements. For example, the current system only allows for one sales rep per Sales Order, and only supports a flat commission rate per rep. 

The Enhanced Commissions spec covers both core (C++) changes and the contents of a new package (scripts) that will be maintained as part of the Enterprise Edition. The core updates are not described here, but are covered by a number of incidents associated with the omnibus Enhanced Commissions incident # 14761. The contents of the Enhanced Commissions package are covered in this specification. Read more »

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More Gain, Less Pain getting started in 3.6

Posted Thu, 10/28/2010 - 18:36 by jrogelstad

UPDATE: The release candidate of xTuple 3.6.0 is available for download (no installer yet, just binaries and databases). 

We have really ramped up our efforts this year to increase the appeal and usability of the user interface. From the new Desktop and Quick Start Wizard, to  improved search functionality we have focused efforts on making it easier to get started and use xTuple.  Version 3.6, now in Beta, will continue that trend by allowing users to launch virtually any document from any other document.   That's right:  No more hunting around the menu system trying to find the edit list for the records you are searching.  Just jump to where you need to go from right where you are.

The new search cluster introduced in 3.5 now replaces all searchable widgets including customer, vendor and work order, and now you can create documents from any of those by selecting "New" on the menu list.  Similarly The combo box pictured on the left also includes the ability to jump directly to the edit list for those items (provided you have privileges of course).

But that's not all.  We've completely reorganized and consolidated the maintenance areas of xTuple in one common and easy to understand "Setup" screen. Read more »

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Installing PostBooks... the long way.

Posted Fri, 09/24/2010 - 11:52 by pclark

While we do publish PostBooks Installers that will quickly and easily install PostBooks, some people like to make the installation a fun little project by installing the individual components.  And really, it's not a bad way for you to practice installing, or to get hands on experience with some of the pieces that we try to hide from you in the packaged installers.  This will be like taking a long walk, but in the end, it's the journey that counts.  Now, if you've been following my writings/ramblings for a while, or if you have met me in person, you know that I'm fiercly aligned with the Penguin Nation, that is, I use, recommend, endorse, and otherwise try to sell everyone on using some flavor of Linux.  Well, In this blog, you'll notice I don't say "Now, go to 'terminal' and..." .  Yep - ALL GUI.  How's THAT for a surprise?  The other surprise is that I wrote this using screen shots from Windows 2000.

          Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
          I took the one less traveled by,
          And that has made all the difference.
                    - Excerpt from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915)
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Source Installing Postgresql on RedHat, Ubuntu and OSX

While xTuple does publish a full Installer which provides PostgreSQL, the preferred method for implementing a production PostgreSQL server is to build PostgreSQL from source. Using the Linux distribution provided packages (apt, yum, rpm, etc) has the potential to introduce incompatibilities and curtail the migration options. The easiest way to support the customer is to keep things simple - and building PostgreSQL from source is simple.

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xTuple Connect

What is xTuple Connect?

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