siwapp - Free online invoice system » jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog Free online invoice system Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Siwapp 0.4.1 : new year’s gift http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:31 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=236 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.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/feed/ 12 First translation in. Farsi!!!! http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/first-translation-in-farsi/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/first-translation-in-farsi/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:14:04 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=216 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.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/first-translation-in-farsi/feed/ 5 Siwapp 0.4 almost out. Call for translations!!! http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:36:47 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=212 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!!

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/feed/ 27 New page. Siwapp upgrade instructions http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-page-siwapp-upgrade-instructions/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-page-siwapp-upgrade-instructions/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:10:52 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=198 some simple instructions on how to upgrade siwapp. not very technical but hopefully useful:
http://www.siwapp.org/blog/siwapp-upgrade-guide/

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-page-siwapp-upgrade-instructions/feed/ 2 New set of fonts. A wider range of character support http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-set-of-fonts-a-wider-range-of-character-support/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-set-of-fonts-a-wider-range-of-character-support/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:24:50 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=192 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!!!!

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/09/new-set-of-fonts-a-wider-range-of-character-support/feed/ 5 dompdf and rowspan, our buggy buddies http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:42:50 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=190 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.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/feed/ 3 remember, rewriting is needed http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/remember-rewriting-is-needed/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/remember-rewriting-is-needed/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:24:19 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=185 I just close an annoying ticket about siwapp throwing a not found error after login.  That bug has been bothering me for a long time now.

It turned out it was all because of the web server not having the rewrite module ! and it’s also said so in the installation guide specs !

I’ve added a check for that feature on the installation code, but please remember: rewriting is needed


]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/remember-rewriting-is-needed/feed/ 11 Two updates in a row: siwapp 0.3.4 http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:09:23 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=177 In spain, we have a saying that is “my dwarfs are growing”, meaning a circus owner complaining when everything start going inexplicably wrong with his circus , even the dwarfs are growing!!

Looks like we’re putting ourselves in kind of a similar situation here. On the previous version the messaging system was broke because of some stupid small bug.

Anyway, that has given me a good chance to think about some design decisions that we may have to reconsider.

Almost forget: the packages here (tar.gz) and here (zip). Upgrading here

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/feed/ 3 Emergency Release: 0.3.3 is out. http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:03:57 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=172 Regarding a blocker bug we found in the previous version , related to not being able to use the “payments” button (yeah, that’s quite a basic feature. Siwapp is just a “digital brick” without it), here is a new update (zip or tar.gz) which that bug corrected.

Also upgrade packages here

Please accept our apologies. And thank you, mcourcy , brauilio and guyfi for letting us know.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/feed/ 7 Siwapp 0.3.2 released http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/siwapp-0-3-2-released/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/siwapp-0-3-2-released/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:59:28 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=163 We’ve just launched a new release (either tar.gz or zip compressed) with some minor and not so minor bug fixes and enhancements . In a nutshell:

  • New set of pdf fonts, and support for unicode out of the box (no need for fancy tricking)
  • When building a printing template, now the user have access to the full invoice object and its methods. Check on the Template building howto updates, also check these warnings
  • some minor bug fixing related to:
  1. “not null” values in the database
  2. uploading image path in windows systems.
  3. variable mangling during the install process
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