Bring the power of the open source development model to your love life, with xHarmony.
Norfolk-based xTuple, maker of acclaimed business software, is directing its talent for creative disruption to the online dating market with the release of xHarmony, a new matchmaking service based on an open-source model. xHarmony, written in the Qt development environment and running on top of a...
xTuple ERP version 4.0 will include significant improvements to the user interface (see the xTuple Product Roadmap and xT3270 - A better user experience ). User interface consistency and source code maintainability will be improved by increasing the degree of code reuse throughout the application. This reuse will decrease the overall size of the application. This smaller application size has...
Stardate 54973.4
It's 2404 and the Open Source community is celebrating the end of proprietary software. It was a difficult battle and many enterprising early adapters had fallen by the wayside. This victory could have been achieved eons earlier if the Open Source Initiative had been organized in 1990.
My mission is to travel back in time to 1990 to organize the movement, so...
We've scrapped that 'bloatware' QT interface for one that most people who remember business computing will appreciate. The new client is called xT3270, and is available on just about any *nix platform (windows requires an emulator).
Here's a screenshot of the new slick xT3270 interface (runnning on linux (unsupported)).
We've also worked closely with...
CEO's log, Stardate 40110
With the imminent launch of xTuple version 3.5, our eight-year mission is almost over. Our software is 100% free of bugs, and xTuple customers throughout the world are running at peak efficiency. There's nothing left to do.
Maybe I'll get into the music business . That is all.
It hasn't always been easy being the only empath at xTuple. Often times customers come to me with a mixed bag of overwhelming emotions: anticipation, fear, optimism, anger, joy, surprise, and relief all at once. It's my job to help you work through these feelings and roll out the software with positive results.
I can usually sense the needs of the customer in advance of any meetings or...
It took me some time to work out the details for creating a viable development environment on Snow Leopard, and I thought my notes might be useful to others. This is the quick and dirty version.
Macintosh Snow Leopard 64 Bit Development Environment
Install Xcode.
Xcode includes Subversion command line tools, but you'll have to download and install RapidSVN if you use it...
With apologies to the Rolling Stones , and everyone else who's used that headline ...
Here are some details about xTuple's upcoming cloud service , which will be available with the final release of version 3.5.0.
Here's information on other great features in the new release , including drop-ship purchasing, cool new tools for CRM, and much more.
Can't wait? Download...
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the general availability of version 3.5 of its namesake product. This latest...
By Lisa Hoover
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor xTuple extended the functionality of its flagship product, xTuple ERP, to include time and expense management, drop ship purchasing, and more. xTuple ERP 3.5 is designed with an eye toward automating time-intensive routine tasks that normally fall on employees to do manually.
By Seth Fineberg
Open-source software developer xTuple has added drop-ship purchasing, time and expense management, and cloud computing to the latest release of its enterprise resource planning software, xTuple ERP 3.5.
Few people may realize that, behind the scenes, xTuple ERP 3.4.0 represented a major overhaul to how the software is put together. For that release we didn't just use extension packages to add on to the xTuple core, we converted core functionality into packages. "Huh?" you say...
Beginning with 3.4.0, we turned xTuple ERP Manufacturing Edition into a separate extension package, xtmfg....
Nearly 3 years ago, I was hired by xTuple. It was an exciting time and I couldn't pack up the family truckster and get to VA soon enough. As part of my parting ways with the old company, I had to write up some instructions. I've included a portion of them here as a sad precautionary tale. Keep in mind, this was 3 years ago - 2007. Besides, it's too early for an April Fools. Why I have these...
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has announced the winner of its haxTuple Contest — Scott Zuke of Core Services Group in Western Michigan. Scott will receive an Apple iPad for his efforts.
The...
The chart above shows the incredible results of our haxTuple bug derby. The orange line is the number of open bugs; the red line is the number of bugs fixed during the contest. As you can see, the lines crossed on the very last day of the contest - 324 bugs fixed, and just 313 remaining (out of over 10,000 over the life of the company).
A big part of the reason for this surge was our...
It's not too late to get in on the action for the haxTuple bug derby . Check out the impressive leaderboard on the left side of this page - there's a fierce battle for the iPad between two prolific community contributors, Alfredo Martinez and Scott Zuke. As they said in a really bad sci-fi movie once, "there can be only one."
But... there can be LOTS of other prizes, including free...
For several years now we've had a very large widget called the "Contact Cluster" that is used as the common interface to edit and search for contacts.
This device was implemented when CRM was introduced into xTuple in version 2.0. The idea was to preserve the previous look and feel of contact information which had been stored locally on each table but, with the introduction of CRM, was...
There's a headline that will wake up a lot of people ;-)
But seriously, we're interested in starting a more active dialog with community members on something that's very close to our hearts as a business: making money. You might even call it a Goal . Yes, we want to make the world a better place for business software users - but we also want to make sure we're striking the right...
The unofficial motto for the United States Postal Service is a tribute to dedication, but may be less appropriate for professions like yours and mine. As you may have heard, we postponed the Power User class that was scheduled earlier this month due to the blizzard that dropped over two feet of snow near our headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia.
As many people planned to drive to the...
Macworld is the annual get together for the Apple and Mac faithful held every year in San Francisco. More than your typical technology conference, it has a long history of being THE event for Apple users (and fans), who come in from literally every corner world. It is traditionally an Apple/Steve Jobs love show. This year, there was a cloud hanging over the show as Apple announced last year...