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Google Analytics plugin for WordPress with lots of of great features
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links for 2010-04-26
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3 free reports for SugarCRM using Zucker reports the SugarCRM plugin that integrates Jasper Reports the open source business intelligence software.
links for 2010-04-25
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Demonstration video on how to create custom fields in SugarCRM 5. In the video I explain how to create 3 custom fields in the contacts module. This is necessary for integration with some joomla extensions.
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iSugar brings SugarCRM to your iPhone. iSugar provides abilities to manage SugarCRM even when the network is off. iSugar is highly customizable to adapt your CRM’s need.
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An Outlook Plugin for Outlook 2007 that integrates Outlook to SugarCRM. The current release allows Contact and Account creation as well as email Archiving and Address Book integration and Calendar synchronization.
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Links and tools from Google to speed up your website. With Google now paying special attention to speed in its search algorithm its never been more important to improve you sites speed. Google themsleves offer some great tools, links and advise although the page can be a little hard to find.
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This WordPress optimization tutorial is the most comprehensive guide to WordPress optimization created with the intention of helping you troubleshoot performance related issues and provide you with guidelines on how to speed up your WordPress site..
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Having a blog that’s snappy & responsive is just one of the many factors that makes a great blog. Even with the best content in the world, a slow blog will frustrate readers & potentially force them elsewhere. In this post we’ll focus on optimising WordPress, a popular free open source blogging platform that runs on PHP
Project management Software
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I often look at project/document management software. In the traditional Microsoft world MS Project is not much more than a Gantt chart, Microsoft would like you to use Sharepoint for document management and collaboration. I am no fan of Microsoft and certainly no fan of Sharepoint, the licensing can be expensive and confusing and I believe there are better solutions available.
There are many project management solutions available including web based and open source software. Many of the project management solutions will include some element of document management (check in/check out, version control etc) but this functionality maybe basic and if it is a serious document management solution that is required I would recommend looking at specific document management software.
Web based solutions
At the low and free end Microsoft offer Office Live and Office Live Workspaces, not really project management but it has a task list and the although Office Live Workspaces doesn’t offer offline collaboration it does offer documents to be “checked out” and “checked in,” for editing locally using Microsoft Office but the service does integrate with MS SharedView for real-time screen sharing. Office Live Workspace keeps track of older versions of files and you can use the web interface of either to roll back to a previous copy.
Google docs is similar to Workspaces but is all contained on the web with an online wordpressor and spreadsheet. Instead of a checkin and checkout process Google docs allows for multiple collaborators. Again Google Docs is not really project management software.
Looking at the non free web solutions that are pitched at Project Management one of the most highly rated is Basecamp which includes collaboration, resource management and document management although not document locking. Other web based solutions:
Huddle – includes document locking
Zoho – Includes project management functionality, document locking and integration with Google Docs
Open Source Project Management Software
The solutions mentioned above are proprietary hosted solutions and in most cases have a monthly charge for business use but there are also web based open source solutions that you could run on your own server or a third party hosted server. Solutions include:
Feng Office – choice of open source and hosted project management including document linking.
Project.net – fully functional open source web based project management software that includes document linking.
More links to project management software:
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Formerly called OpenGoo – open source web based office software including project management
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Open source Gantt chart software similar to Microsoft Project
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Basecamp Web Based Project Management Software from 37 signals
Making Cool things with Microcontrollers Video
While at Mitch Altmans How to make cool things with Microcontrollers Workshop at the weekend I recorded quite a bit of video. I now need to cut most of this down in size and length. I have put a couple of these videos on youtube. They were taken with the incredibly inexpensive Kodak ZX1. The quality has been reduced for youtube and apologies for the hand shake that you inevitably get with these small cameras.
The first video is a great introduction from Mitch Altman and Jimmie P Rodgers explaining about hackerspaces (introduced by the great Antonio Roberts)
The second video is a great guide from Mitch Altman on how to solder properly
Made a cool thing with Microcontrollers
On Sunday I went to Mitch Altman’s How To Make Cool Things With Microcontrollers workshop organised by Fizzpop where with lots of help from Mitch Altman from Cornfield Electronics, Jimmie P Rogers and my son we made this:
What is it? Its a Mignonette Game a mini games console that you can build yourself. It comes pre- installed with a mini pacman type game but you can also download mini Space Invaders and mini Tetris.
