An open source web application meant to help manage & create invoices in a simple, straightforward way.

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An error has been discovered by Andrej in the .htaccess file. See this to fix it.

We’ll fix it in future releases. Thank you Andrej!

All the ruby people, where do they all come from?

Well, that’s mostly what this post is about.

As you all know, we’ve been developing siwapp for the last years using the symfony 1.4 framework. When we started this project, we did it for a handful of reasons:

  • have some fun
  • give something back to the “community” (I know it’s not a big “something” , but still it’s something ;-) )
  • learn , learn, learn.
  • and , of course, all the unexpected that comes when you develop in an open environment, with all the users input and contributions.

Siwapp 0.4.1 : new year’s gift

It’s been a few months since siwapp 0.4 came to light.

Keeping an eye on the users group has allowed us to quickly catch on some bugs. Fresh update for you to enjoy:

  • Estimates needing to be saved three times bug corrected
  • The default fonts are lighter than previous, also a wiki section on that topic updated.
  • some minor template glitchs corrected
  • error when deleting invoices corrected
  • error 500 when deleting customer fixed
  • added hungarian translation
  • customer name in cyrillic error corrected.

 

That’s pretty much it!! You the “usual suspects” know the drill. If you’re new, we’ve got a drill for you too…

 

So, go on, get your stuff and head for new year’s eve celebration afterwards. I wish you a lot of using the app for the next year,  ;-)

 

Happy new year to everyone, btw.

Siwapp 0.4 released

Just launched the latest release of siwapp!!

For a complete view of changes done, visit this link.

The big changes are:

  • Estimates
  • Products
  • Bug fixes
  • Minor improvements

If you are upgrading, be sure to follow the instructions. Enjoy!

Small issue upgrading PHP to 5.3

Although we are still in beta version, as we said over and over again, there are people who have installed Siwapp on their own server. If you’re one of those people, intrepid adventurer, and you have decided to try luck with the latest version of PHP (5.3), you can suddenly get a 500 error when trying to access the application. Read More »

First translation in. Farsi!!!!

Thanks to the great contribution of Mohsen Ezzatpanah, the first siwapp translation is the persian one.

I just tested the translation file and voila!!! the ui changed completely in a delicious way for my iso-8851-1 eyes.

What can I say?? I’m fairly proud of having siwapp running on this ancient language.

Siwapp 0.4 almost out. Call for translations!!!

Well, we’re finally there.

Siwapp 0.4 is around the corner. The software is ready for being published, but before we release it, we need to make our traditional “call for translators”. And ask for your gentle help in translating this app.

So, If you’re listening, please throw us a comment!!

New page. Siwapp upgrade instructions

some simple instructions on how to upgrade siwapp. not very technical but hopefully useful:
http://www.siwapp.org/blog/siwapp-upgrade-guide/

New set of fonts. A wider range of character support

Today I just uploaded a whole new set of fonts to siwapp. These are based on the “dejavu” fonts and they have plenty of weird unicode character support.

In fact, this whole thing started thanks to Braulio, from the siwapp users group, who couldn’t find the right symbol for his country’s currency (the colon). He researched and pointed me to this set of fonts, which I think will came really handy.

among other things, we have now access to three special fonts:

  1. serif-condensed
  2. sans-serif-condensed
  3. sans-serif-ultralight

which I think the heavy text users will appreciate.

also, I rearranged all the pdf fonts related wiki pages

PS: 0.4 is almost out. watch out translators!!!!

dompdf and rowspan, our buggy buddies

watch it!

when rendering an html template to build a pdf, if a table cell with the “rowspan” attribute is break because a page change, the pdf engine will throw a nice “frame not found in cellmap” exception, as describe here

We’ve already changed our default template to make sure it doesn’t include any rowspanned cell (yes, it used to). When you build your own invoice template, please take this into account.