Archives : May-2016

Download the latest version of SugarCRM Community Edition available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sugarcrm/files/ to the ‘/opt’ directory on the server. Then, extract it and move the SugarCRM files and directories to the ‘/var/www/html/sugar’ directory. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of SugarCRM Community Edition is 6.5.20. cd /opt/ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sugarcrm/files/latest/download -O SugarCE-6.5.20.zip ..

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A simple http enabled text to speech server   Introduction One of the technologies I’m more fond of is domotics. I don’t have the budget for a java enabled oven, but with some x10 plugs I’ve recently had a lot of fun building a system where a midlet on my mobile periodically polls my home ..

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I love the power of Java and of backend products like OpenJMS, Hibernate, Spring, JMX and so on. And I love the simple, immediate and effective approach of PHP when developing the web presentation layer. I always use both languages together, usually exposing Java services to the PHP applications thru Soap or Xml-Rpc. But how ..

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Using SugarCRM as an authentication system Demo available : you can now directly test what’s explained in this article. A demo is available here. Introduction Here we are again with this series of articles about SugarCRM integration. This time we’ll explore the use of sugar as authentication system and user manager for custom PHP applications. ..

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documentation about exposed SOAP functions. This time the SOAP methods we’re interested in are: login, to log in into sugar crm get_entry_list to query sugar crm and get lists of Contacts,Accounts etc. To access SOAP functionalities from PHP we’ll use the nusoap library, which does not require any special PHP extension. We’re now going to ..

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Introduction I recently got involved in a project where reliable communication between etherogenous platforms was required. Having already worked with JMS, I had to find a way to expose its services to the frontend(a PHP base web application). Some time before I had come across XFire, and had been looking for a chance to work ..

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Introduction J2me Chart Component is a free MIDP2.0 library, aimed at helping J2ME developers to easily add charts to their personal or commercial midlets. I’m writing this article because some people have asked for a simple kickstarting tutorial on how to use the library. I hope this will be useful and that will also help ..

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Overview Some people are using my Tunnel4J, an easy graphical utility that allows connecting to remote ssh servers and mapping local and remote ports for tunneling. Tunnel4J is based on Jcraft’s Jsch, an excellent 100% java library for ssh. As I recently received multiple requests about how to do ssh tunneling in java, I’ve decided ..

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Important : We’ve just launched  UserEncrypted.com , a free client side encryption service to securely store passwords or notes. The peculiarirty of the system is that your clear data never leaves your browser, and only encrypted data is sent to our server. I recently happened to work on a web application whose commissioner was a ..

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