I often find myself wanting to refactor code all the time. I sometimes look at code I have written and wish it was different. But there needs to be a reason to refactor. Beautiful code is great, but only developers …
Continue Reading →The purpose of this post is to describe the first customization made on Zurmo Covering the minimal use case “Bill of Materials for Opportunities”. Introduction In this use case, Opportunities will be treated as garments that we need to produce, …
Continue Reading →Big or small, there is a competitive streak in all of us, whether we are playing golf with friends or Xbox with the kids. I have one of those friends who even makes sport out of having the latest mobile …
Continue Reading →“Email is where knowledge goes to die”. This quote from Bill French is still one of my favourites and its sentiment is shared by many of us working on Zurmo. Need convincing? Allow me to state my argument: Got a …
Continue Reading →We all collect badges in some shape or form, whether they’re shot glasses from each country you have traveled to, or that photo on your wall of your wedding day. Badges help define us as people. They remind ourselves and …
Continue Reading →Ivica, one of the core developers at Zurmo, has created a script that creates stress tests. Tests are done using the Apache Benchmark tool. We created tests via the Zurmo API. We set up 50 tests per module, and 10 …
Continue Reading →A momentous day for the Zurmo Open Source CRM project, as the Beta release was tagged earlier this afternoon. With a number of major features that span from the new user interface to CRM gamification, this is the most significant …
Continue Reading →This is the second in a 2 part blog discussing further details on Zurmo CRM gamification, so if you have not already seen Part 1 where we discuss Points and Leveling, then I suggest you read that first! CRM Gamification …
Continue Reading →You may have seen my earlier post CRM Gamification Becomes Reality; if not then you might want to check it out. In this post I will talk in more detail about how points are awarded, leveling, and what categories we …
Continue Reading →This morning, we published our first press release and announced our plans for the Beta later this month: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9486716.htm We have received an encouraging response so far from the press, with journalists largely inquiring about Zurmo’s gamification techniques and CRM …
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