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 →Here is a real life example of how 1000+ unit tests pays off. Yesterday a user found a bug with the homepage “My Tasks” portlet. The portlet was configured to show only “open” tasks and not completed tasks, but the …
Continue Reading →With the addition of module portlets, the Zurmo homepage is really solidifying. The portlets include My Accounts, My Leads, My Opportunities, My Contacts, My Open Tasks, and My Upcoming Meetings. The user can configure their portlets based on their preferences …
Continue Reading →After several experiences discovering bugs, I realize now that we need to get the Selenium back on track sooner rather than later. Currently Nilesh is working on getting the existing selenium tests updated to work. Once that is done, we …
Continue Reading →We are getting closer to a beta release. Iteration 18 has several things that are short and quick to do. In iteration 18 we will be adding a “Recently Viewed” user interface element, as well as a global jump search. …
Continue Reading →After review, I have decided we are going to store attachments in the database instead of the file system. This will make it much easier to deal with setting up load-balanced web-servers for global deployments. It makes the back-up regiment …
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