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Why we tweet

Posted Mon, 11/09/2009 - 16:07 by BC Wilson

How many of you out there have a Twitter account? Do you find it useful? Annoying? Trivial? Informative?

I've been on the fence, like many others. I've had a Twitter account for over a year. But as soon as I started following various users, I was appalled by the avalanche of blather that poured into my Twitter feed. I walked away from the whole phenomenon for a while, convinced that this much-ballyhooed new technology was just a collosal time waster, worse than FaceBook or MySpace, and totally useless to me in the business world.

But then I started to read more, and I looked again at Twitter, and how I was using it. Read more »

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What's my motivation?

Posted Fri, 08/07/2009 - 16:11 by BC Wilson

It happens in our forums all the time. Someone posts a question like, “How do I set up PostgreSQL for a multiuser environment?” There's an answer to this question, of course, but it's not simple. You need to know a bit about PostgreSQL, about user adminstration, and about the xTuple ERP database. People seem to think we can paste an answer into the reply field and solve their problem, but what we usually do is point them to the resources they need to solve the problem themselves. Some people, unfortunately, put down xTuple ERP at this point and walk away. Read more »

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Now with 200% more e-commerce!

Posted Mon, 08/03/2009 - 16:03 by BC Wilson

In the past week xTuple has released modules to integrate xTuple ERP with Ubercart (a module for Drupal) and osCommerce, two of the most popular open source e-commerce platforms. This is in addition to our long-standing support for Yahoo Stores.

You can find all three free e-commerce integration solutions from xTuple for download from the xChange.

You can download and use any of these three solutions right away, or you can use them as a basis for further, more complex integrations between xTuple and an e-commerce site. If you decide to modify or extend them, or if you use them as a basis to connect to a totally different e-commerce platform (we have our eyes on Magento...) we hope you'll consider sharing them with the community here at xTuple. Read more »

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Give PostBooks the thumbs up

Posted Fri, 07/31/2009 - 09:19 by BC Wilson

SourceForge.net, where you can download the open source PostBooks project, has undergone a lot of changes lately. Some of them are great--the new site home page is a much better interface for users looking to find software on the site--and some are not so wonderful, such as the new file download system, which is still a work in progress. We're hoping they work out the bugs there soon.

One enhancement is the new "reviews" feature. If you're a fan of PostBooks, please take a moment to log in to SourceForge and review the PostBooks project. Think of it as a way to help others find PostBooks!

Thanks. Read more »

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NOM NOM NOM

Posted Mon, 05/18/2009 - 13:35 by BC Wilson

An essential xTuple doctrine is our commitment to “eating our own dog food,” using xTuple ERP within our own company to do our jobs better, and to ensure we understand the experience from a customer's point of view. It can be eye-opening, at times. In this way, we've come up with our own "wish list" of features we'd like to see in the software.  Of course, nothing speeds up that process like actual demand from paying customers :) Read more »

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New Translation Portal Video

Posted Tue, 03/31/2009 - 08:31 by BC Wilson

Demo VideoProfessor Atherton has been hard at work again, this time to produce a training video for the xTuple online Translation and Localization tools. If you've been thinking about getting involved with the translation of xTuple into any of the sixteen languages currently under development, this demonstration video is just what you need. Jump in, take a look, and give us your feedback! Then head over to the Translation Portal and get started. Read more »

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Web interfaces to xTuple

Posted Wed, 03/11/2009 - 15:38 by BC Wilson

With the launch of this new xtuple.org website we're also launching the first web-based interface to xTuple ERP. It's our CRM Support module, a tool that allows us to display CRM data from the xTuple database directly on the web (sorry, only authorized customers and partners have access to the online support portal!). Read more »

 

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