BDC Software

Vehicle Manager

VehicleManager is an easy to use vehicle data collection and inventory management system. It's a very powerful and compact solution. Book-in vehicles with Kelley Blue Book or Chrome data. VIN decoding and Barcode reading is built-in.

Business Development Center 2.5

Business Development Center 2.5 is an easy to use CRM software package automotive dealerships. Based on proven processes for sales and service, it provides all the necessary tools needed to effectively run a CRM/BDC department at your dealership.

WordPress 3.1.1 Exclude Categories Issue

I have run into an interesting issues after upgrading to WP 3.1.1. It seems something has broken the query_posts() functions ability to process the ‘cat’ parameter. Usual calls to: query_posts("cat=1"); or to: query_posts("cat=-1"); //exclude category 1 stopped working. It is interesting that only the ‘cat’ parameter is broken. The Hotfix plugin promises to address the [...]

Fixing Replication Monitor on upgraded SQL 2008 Server

Recently I had to upgrade an instance of SQL Server 2000 Publisher/Distributor to SQL Server 2008. The in-place upgrade process from Microsoft went as expected and merge replication picked up where it stopped prior to the upgrade. There was however an issue with the Replication Monitor. It failed to connect to the Distributor. What’s even [...]

Pys60 App Skeleton

Over the development of a few applications with pys60 I have standardized on an app skeleton that simplifies and speeds-up the initial process of getting something going. The basic idea is to have an application shell up and running on various environments without needing a lot of configuration changes as quickly as possible. By default [...]

Google Voice for S60

In light of recent Symbian developments and Nokia’s unwillingness to continue improvement of the Python runtime we are forced to discontinue work on GoogleVoiceForS60. We have, however, open-sourced the code to the app and posted it on Google Code. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for using the application so far. http://code.google.com/p/googlevoicefors60/ Necessity is [...]

N97 Music Library

As I said in the previous part, the N97 sound playback is very good. There is no distortion, no hissing or cracking during playback. Even when you use the equalizer there is no audible distortion as long as you stay within sane limits. Most of the time I transfer songs to the device in mass-storage [...]

Nokia N97 From Developers Perspective

Let me state upfront that this is not a typical phone review. Rather it’s the first part of series of articles written from a developers “point of view”. I will try to go over how it is to develop on this phone, the experiences while using it and of course the issues I encounter. I [...]

N97 Small Emulator Skin

Recently I have installed and started experimenting with N97SDK 0.5. One of the first things I noticed that the emulator window is huge(due to the 360 x 640 phone resolution) and will be partially off-screen on mylaptop with its low resolution of 1280×800. Creating the actual skin configuration file and the bitmap for the N97 [...]

XML/SWF Charts in Ruby on Rails

Since RMagick seems to be broken on Win32 when using with Ruby 1.8.4 and Gruff is using RMagick to draw its pretty graphs, I had to go out and find an alternative chart library for use with Rails. XML/SWF Charts Fortunately I have run into this chart library a while back when doing php evelopment. [...]