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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.

Initial Training Read more »

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xTuple Fixed Asset Maintenance (Planned and Preventative Maintenance)

Posted Tue, 08/30/2011 - 01:59 by anderson

I am pleased to announce the first release of the Asset Maintenance package is now available on the xChange bringing Planned and Unplanned maintenance functionality to the xTuple ERP solutions (http://www.xtuple.com/node/2284).  This package is based on a Design Specification posted in January (http://www.xtuple.org/node/3809).

The Maintenance package is designed to allow organizations to plan maintenance of assets into the future and to schedule the preventative maintenance of assets to reduce or eliminate costly breakdowns.  The unthinkable always happens so Unplanned Maintenance is also covered in this package. Read more »

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Fixed Asset packages Updated

Posted Thu, 08/25/2011 - 02:59 by anderson

The Fixed Asset packages have been updated to version 1.0.2.  The update resolves some minor bugs, prepares the packages for the forthcoming Maintenance package and introduces a new Desktop.

The Desktop is designed to give easy access to the Fixed Asset functionality especially when all the packages are being used.  In addition the User Guide has been upgraded.

You will need to upgrade through the relevant versions to get to version 1.0.2.  This means upgrading from 1.0.1Beta -> 1.0.1RC -> and finally 1.0.2.  The relevant packages are available on the xChange.

For purchasers of Fixed Asset Depreciation package, the upgrade is free of charge.  You will need to upgrade the Fixed Asset basic package to 1.0.2 before upgrading the Depreciation package.

We are very close to publishing the first release of the Fixed Asset Maintenance package.  The Maintenance package will require Fixed Asset 1.0.2 as a pre-requisite. Read more »

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Batten down the Hatches!!! Encrypting your PostgreSQL Traffic with OpenSSL.

Posted Wed, 04/27/2011 - 14:15 by pclark

It's 3AM... do you know what your server is doing?

You probably don't know. If you do know, you need to do something other than worry about your server.

In most cases, it's probably not doing anything more than when you left it at the end of the day.  But, during the day, you have some external users connecting, querying your PostBooks or xTuple databases - All seemingly innocent... or ARE THEY?! It could be some MITM parsing your datastream. 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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PostgreSQL Kung-Fu: Migrating between major versions.

Posted Fri, 12/11/2009 - 12:06 by pclark

Has this happened to you?  You're called in to sandbox the newest version of xTuple for a customer.  "Piece of cake" you think to yourself, "I'll buzz in and buzz out, 30 minutes tops".

"ERROR: syntax error at or near "(" at character 578"

Arrrrgh!  We'll you try again, maybe even open up the update package and poke around looking for a syntax erorr.  "I know this worked on my laptop when I tried it at home..."  Deep breath, keep your cool... We all know that the 10 minute jobs are the ones that end up taking days and years off of our lives.  Read more »

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Simple Postgres Server Monitoring Script for Linux and OSX

Posted Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:37 by pclark

Nagios, Splunk, SNMP are various monitoring tools that can alert you to the status of connectivity to your SQL server.  While I would like to employ these tools to monitor our network, I find that I really just want a tool to tell me 'Hey!  Go check the server!  It ain't working because of x,y,z...'.  Checkpg.sh is such a tool. Read more »

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Version 3.3 installers now available - for download and hosted demo

Posted Wed, 09/09/2009 - 16:22 by ned

Greetings all,

Just a quick note that the much-discussed xTuple ERP version 3.3.0 is now available for download at SourceForge.

Once again, we've built all-in-one installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac - which can install the xTuple ERP client, as well as a local copy of PostgreSQL, up to three sample PostBooks Edition databases, the xTuple Updater tool (also used for loading and unloading Packages), and the OpenRPT report writer.

And of course, the client can connect to either your own local database (usually PostBooks), or your own private hosted demo database featuring the full Manufacturing Edition functionality (including the new DRP engine in 3.3).

We look forward to your feedback! Read more »

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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The Zero Footprint Advantage

Posted Thu, 08/13/2009 - 12:19 by jrogelstad

The decision making process for selecting an ERP system is often reliant on the needs of Accounting and Operations people whose primary concern is functionality.   Yet I.T. Administrators bear the burden of deploying the application and anything that goes wrong seems to fall on their shoulders.  Ask any I.T. person what they want in a business system and the answer is “Something that is easy as possible to maintain.”  For this reason I.T. Managers often assume that what would be easiest is a browser-based solution because they don't have to install anything on their users' client machines.  Think again.  xTuple's zero footprint solution is easier than that. Read more »