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:

 

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SugarCRM Solution Architect Webinar Series starting on September 6

You may have heard that SugarCRM will be presenting a series of webinars on solution architecture for the Sugar platform, throughout this September and October.

Beginning on September 6th, Sugar University’s Solution Architect Webinar Series will present the following topics:

• Introduction to Solution Architecture for Sugar
• CRM Project Fundamentals
• The Sugar Platform
• Design
• Integration
• Sugar Implementation
• Performance and Quality Assurance
• Deployment
• Security

Each webinar will be guided by a panel of experts from across SugarCRM, including some familiar faces from the Architecting Successful Projects panel at this year’s UnCon. 

UnCon 2016 Recap!

Thanks to everyone who attended the UnCon! It was a whirlwind for all of us but I think we have put on the best iteration of this event we have ever had.

In brief, it went so well that there is wide agreement across the company for a significantly expanded event for Sugar Developers at SugarCon next year. So we look forward to seeing you all again for SugarCon in September 2017.

This Year’s Highlights

UnCon 2016 agenda posted on Sugar Community

We are gearing up big time for SugarCon so I wanted to give the community a quick update.

UnCon @ SugarCon 2016 Overview

Sugar Developers – UnCon is YOUR conference! Hosted by SugarCRM Engineering, UnCon is the developer conference within a conference. UnCon is your opportunity to learn, rub shoulders, and hack with the top developers and architects at SugarCRM. Whether you are a Sugar Developer ace trying to get answers to your deepest technical questions or a Sugar newbie trying to learn what the Sugar platform is all about, this where you can get the answers straight from the source.

This year it is again being held on June 14th and June 15th at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco.

To participate at UnCon, you must be registered for SugarCon.

UnCon Agenda

The UnCon agenda is now live in the UnCon space within our Sugar Community.  Abstracts for the sessions are linked from the agenda page, so you can get more details about what will be covered and who is presenting.

Check it out so you can plan your visit to SugarCon and make sure you do not miss a thing!

UnCon Hoodies and Beer are Back!

We will have a limited quantity of exclusive UnCon hoodies this year.  They will be for card carrying Sugar Developers from our community only!  Come to UnCon to learn how to make one of these your very own.

UnCon Hoodie mockup

 

Also back by popular demand:

 

Mental lubrication

Give us Feedback!

Please provide feedback within the UnCon community!  You can respond with comments on abstracts, post any of your burning questions, and create new ideas for the UnCon event!

Announcing the 2016 App Throwdown!

Welcome to the 2016 App Throwdown!

Submissions are now open for the 2016 App Throwdown! Our annual showcase of technology for the Sugar platform is always a crowd favorite. The App Throwdown is where customers, partners, and prospects get to see some of the coolest, most useful, and innovative extensions that drive business transformation, save costs, and close deals faster. Check out this overview document, then head on over to the How to Submit Your App to the App Throwdown! document to learn how to get started in the 2016 App Throwdown!

Don’t forget, you must be registered in the community to participate and submit an entry. No worries though! Registration is super easy–just fill out this form and validate your email. Also, there’s no cost to be a member of the community or participate in the App Throwdown.

Best in Class & Best in Show

New Sugar Docs: Sugar 7 On-Site Sizing Guide and more!

Relaunched SugarCRM Support Site!

Have you had a chance to check out the new SugarCRM Support site? It is awesome. I am in there all the time looking up documentation so the new changes have really made my job easier. The new layout looks great but also organizes the content better and the search functionality has been improved.  This means I can find the information I need that much faster.

On top of that, the new Support site includes a couple of recent additions that are welcome to Sugar newbies and those Sugar Developer veterans who have been around the block.

Update on CreateActionsView changes in Sugar 7.7

Based on Sugar Developer community feedback, we have an additional update about the CreateActionsView changes in Sugar 7.7.

CreateActions migration script added to Sugar 7.7 Upgrader

During Sugar 7.7 upgrade, the upgrader will identify existing create-actions view/layout customizations and automatically migrate them to create view/layout.  This is a best effort migration that follows the two steps listed near bottom of this blog post.

If a custom create view/layout already exists, then create-actions changes will not be automatically migrated.

This will mitigate impact of this change for existing Sugar customers.

Tech Track @ Global Partner Summit 2015 Recap

Global Partner Summit 2015

This year’s SugarCRM Global Partner Summit took place over the course of 2 days last week in Cascais, Portugal.  Partner Summit is an annual opportunity for SugarCRM and our valued business partners (Resellers, Technology partners, Systems Integrators, and OEMs) to get together to share experiences and learn from each other.

#GPS2015 has started! @sugarcrm #cascais #Portugal #CRM @sugarclint pic.twitter.com/RzbsZFYins

— Anki Strigl (@AnkiStrigl) October 20, 2015

Tech Track @ GPS 2015

A few (lucky) engineers and managers from SugarCRM Engineering team and other tech teams such as Support, Operations, Alliances, and Professional Services were on hand to run the GPS Tech Track.  Tech Track provided 2 half days worth of technical presentations and special topic breakout sessions designed specifically for Sugar Developers that work for our partners.

Ultimately, since our Partner Community is so diverse our goal was to create a technical event that helps align everyone on best practices for tooling, dev methodology, quality assurance, and continuous integration/DevOps.  We also included plenty of special topic breakout sessions that allowed partner developers to get deeper on topics that are interesting to them.