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We’ve got some really cool stuff coming in the PBooks pipeline! Probably the most significant is the potential to run PBooks on Perl and Python. This is still a ways away, but it should be ready with the stable release of PBooks (i.e. not this year).
What else?
* Better integration support with other open source small business software
* Packages!
* Improved user management and access controls
* Better email invoicing support
* Updated database model
As always, feedback appreciated!
Still plugging along here at PBooks, and there are a couple of small but important developments:
* Over 2000 commits!
* Saved reports are now in XML format, on their way to being fully dynamic in the database
* jQuery is doing a great job of making javascript work for PBooks
If you’ve been watching the SVN commits - they haven’t been too frequent or substantial lately. Apart from my wife and I having our first child, its also tax season here in the states. I’ve been using PBooks to manage my small business finances and its time to reconcile all the accounts for 2007. Its still a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to say everything is working really well!
With that said, I’m feeling like a stable release within 2008 might be pushing it. There is still a lot of work to be done before PBooks is ready for prime time. For the adventurous - feel free to give PBooks a try. 
I’m am utterly thrilled that today I sent out my company invoices entirely using PBooks! I only had to load up Quickbooks to find an address that was missing from my CRM database.
Invoice functionality still has a long way to go, but now that I’m able to use PBooks, I’ll be able to save a lot of time, time that I can dedicate to extending and improving PBooks!
I’ve been working away like crazy on PBooks lately, and I’m closing in on a release of 0.07.
I’m not relying on the trac roadmap right now, as I think the planning can get a little bit ahead of the functionality with software, so I’m using the software and reviewing the code to let my mind analyze everything. In this process, I’ve been adding a lot of source code comments and its already helping me be more productive when I need to dive into a file and get my bearings.
Its funny, because adding a lot of comments makes the file seem messy, but its much easier to understand. The more I add comments, the more comfortable I’ll get with them and I’m sure I’ll find my own style.
There isn’t anything groundbreaking in changes from 0.06, but several obscure bugs have been squashed, as well as a lot of minor but important interface improvements. The code base is also a lot more consistent.
I’ve also been updating and cleaning up the tests a lot. After the addition of a few business processes to PBooks, I realized the need to keep the tests organized and consistent, so we can keep up with testing new functionality as it unfolds.
Which reminds me, one of the remaining tasks before a 0.07 release is the addition of Purchase Orders to PBooks. So I’ll get started on that now!
Flot is a jQuery extension which uses the canvas drawing method of javascript. I’ve added their example test to the PBooks code base to try it out:
http://www.pbooks.org/demo/index.php?nid=flot-test
Cool, huh? I can’t wait to start feeding some financial data into those charts!
UPDATE February 20, 2008: I’ve removed the flot test from the code base for now to focus on other priorities.
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