Saturday, November 23, 2013

Reporting in LedgerSMB 1.4: Part 5, Conclusions

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I hope many of you have enjoyed this series.  We've tried hard to avoid inner platform syndrome here by making reporting something that ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4: (Mostly-) Declarative Perl Modules

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So far we have talked about getting data in, and interacting with the database.  Now we will talk about the largest of the modules and cover...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

On CPAN, Community, and P: A Case Study in What Not to Do

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I am going to try to do this piece as respectfully as I can.  I understand people put a lot of work into developing things and they submit t...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4, part 3, Stored Procedure Conventions and Best Practices

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The stored procedures/UDFs form the heart of the LedgerSMB reports. Everything else basically is there to handle input to the stored procedu...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Interlude: A cool PL/PGSQL trick

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I will be getting back to the report writing in LedgerSMB next or the week after.   I have an open source, PostgreSQL-based point of sale pr...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Writing Reports for LedgerSMB 1.4 part 2: Input Filter Screens

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The input filter screen system is designed to be fairly simple and yet easily extended.  This post will cover the overall design of the syst...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4 Part 1: Overview

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One of the major features of the upcoming LedgerSMB 1.4 branch is the new reporting system.  This post gives a very basic breakdown of this ...