Our blog is moving(!) and other exciting community updates

We’re getting a head start on our New Year’s Resolutions!  We’ve given our developer community a fresh, new look, and we feel ten pounds lighter.  Let me give you a tour!

First, we’ve migrated our blog from developer.sugarcrm.com to the Developer Community at https://community.sugarcrm.com/community/developer/pages/dev-blog.  We’re really excited about this change as the community is now your one-stop-shop for everything related to developing on Sugar.  We’ll temporarily be putting new posts on both blogs, but please update your bookmarks now.

New video! Use Vagrant to start coding with Sugar in 20 minutes

Do you need to set up your Sugar development environment but only have 20 minutes to spare?  With the help of Vagrant, I’ve got you covered. Check out my new video below:

 

Prefer text-based instructions?  Get them here.

Get your hot hands on the Sugar Mobile SDK!

Greg Khanlarov, Director of Mobile Development, is so excited about the launch of the new Sugar Mobile SDK that he is speechless!

If you are coming to SugarCon, make sure you get your hot hands on the new Sugar Mobile SDK first! On Tuesday, you can join Greg for his presentation Sugar Mobile SDK deep dive. Next Wednesday, at the UnCon Tutorials by the Experts, you can meet Greg and other folks from our Mobile development team and learn how to build your first custom Sugar Mobile app.

Read on for more details on the Sugar Mobile SDK!

Professor Marum’s School for Gifted Coders

You have may have seen a recent video where a menacing figure was growling about Quotes customizations and a “Professor M.”

Villains hate Professor M.

 

Who is Professor M? Well me technically. But let me share with you the story.

UnCon is for CRM Heroes (and Villains)

The SugarCRM team has embraced our theme for SugarCon this year (CRM Heroes) like never before! Check out these great videos from some of SugarCRM’s best and brightest. You will meet all these heroes (and villains) at UnCon!  Register for SugarCon today!

Want to know who is this mysterious Quotes module engineer? You will have to come to find out!

More videos are below!

Meet our remarkable technical teams!

Here are a couple more UnCon promo videos from SugarCRM’s remarkable technical teams.

First off, we have a video Nick Rose, an experienced solutions architect, and also the Director of Solutions Consulting in the Americas. Come to UnCon and check out Nick’s session on the Understanding the Sugar Platform.

Next, we have the brilliant and humble Robert Gonzalez, Software Engineering Manager on the Product team. You can bet that his tutorial at UnCon will be truly remarkable!

Stay tuned for more videos from the UnCon team!

Register for SugarCon today!

The perfect way for beginners to learn about Sugar

Are you learning about Sugar for the first time?  Or maybe, it has been a while, and you want to see how the Sugar platform has evolved since the Community Edition days?

Watch the video below to learn why SugarCon and UnCon is the perfect way to get started with building on and integrating with Sugar.

Hello from SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate!

Hey there, Sugar Developers!

I’m SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate, and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself.  My name is Lauren Schaefer. Since getting my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science at North Carolina State (go pack!), I’ve been slowly migrating north over the years, and I currently live in Pennsylvania.

Customer improves Sugar On-Site performance by 2x using CloudFlare CDN

Note from the SugarCRM team

This post represents an individual customer’s experience with using CloudFlare CDN. The results are pretty exciting! But here is a word of warning.

SugarCRM does not officially support use of a Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). CDNs alter the behavior and content of HTTP requests which can cause bugs and prevent the propagation of administrative (ex. Studio) and code changes. The author has provided a process that works for them but may not work for everyone.

Sugar Support will not help you with CDN configuration. If you run into problems with Sugar using a CDN that you cannot resolve on your own then you should discontinue use of the CDN.

The following post was written by Sugar Customer Mark Anderson. It was originally posted on his personal blog and is reproduced here in a lightly edited form.

The CloudFlare content delivery network (CDN) is an inexpensive but powerful way to optimize the performance of a Sugar on-premise deployment. This post looks at how a free CloudFlare account could double the performance of a Sugar On-Site instance.

The experiment started with a review of the performance of a Sugar deployment, using GTMetrix to establish baseline performance. The ultimate goal was to improve performance. We wanted to explore all options since our initial assumption was that better performance would require a costly server upgrade.

How to filter on related fields using Filter API

This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia, an Elite SugarCRM Partner. Yann Bergès describes how you can use a relate filter with the Filter API. He also explores how Sugar does it as well as identifying a drawback to be considered when using this feature.

We all know the moment when you are roaming through source code to find something for a particular purpose and you come across that feature you didn’t expect but you absolutely want to test. This is how I came into the related link filter feature. What do I mean by related link filter? It is a derivative way to filter related data on a One-to-Many relationship by specifying a link name and a target field:

I want all Contacts filtered on their related Account with « Industry » value « Electronics » (use « one » side of the relationship)
I want all Accounts filtered on their related Contacts with « Title » value « President » (use « many » side of the relationship)

This is an advanced use of Sugar 7 Filter API, if you never used it before, have a look at this documentation for detailed information about how filters work:
– SugarCRM Cookbook – The School of REST – Part 3
– Sugar 7.8 Developer Guide – Architecture – Filters
Examples and tests have been made with a Sugar instance PRO 7.8.0.0