As we have said many times, we like things simple both for the user as for the rest of developers. To simplify programming and improve the performance of siwapp, we added the use of triggers in the database. What does this mean? It means that when a figure changes, the database automatically updates the total bill [...]
Author Archives: Carlos Escribano
New templating system adopted
It’s wonderful to see how the community of developers is producing high quality tools that can be used in our projects.
Today I would like to announce the use of Twig, a template system redesigned by Fabien Potencier and based on the original code by Armin Ronacher. It is a robust, fast and flexible system that will [...]
0.2 alpha RC3
We have updated the 0.2 alpha with a few new bug fixes and without the ability of managing templates (you will see a notice if you attemp to access that section).
0.2 alpha version is coming soon
At this moment we have completed the 76% of the all 54 new tickets we opened for the 0.2 alpha version of siwapp. Our friend Albert is currently working in a first approximation to an installation system, a first step to help you (courageous man with a web server in your hands) to install an [...]
Did I say that it is an unstable version?
Is not a very interesting story, but you can save some time if you read it: this software is in alpha stage! What does this mean? Take a look at this wikipedia entry for more information.
In short, this means that if you are not a geek and you are not familiar with the world of [...]
Testing Tripoli
That’s my new task. I think Yahoo! YUI Library is too large and complicated to use only the CSS reset and fonts files, and it does not provide a flexible way of measuring items for layout in em’s. But it was the best we found until now.
siwapp is here!
After a few months of development we are pleased to present the first functional version of siwapp. Although it is still in alpha stage, it is now possible to test its most basic features and see how we come steadily to our goal: to make invoices and make them good.

