One of the first things people do when they start thinking about implementing DevOps best practices is setting up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tooling.  So that’s just what we did with the Professor M School. &...

One of the biggest pains in developing a module loadable package for Sugar is figuring out how to track the package in source control.  You don’t want to keep your entire Sugar directory under source control--you just want your custom cod...

We’ve been working behind the scenes to create a customized version of Sugar that we’re calling the Professor M School.  The essential pieces are ready to go, and we’re thrilled to announce that the repo for the Professor M Sc...

Attention developers!  We’ve released Winter '18!  This is our second quarterly On-Demand only release, and we’re pretty excited about it.  Our Co-Founder & CMO, Clint Oram, discusses the highlights of this releas...

What is the Input Validation Framework?The Input Validation Framework is a centralized security framework used to validate that external input is provided in the expected format. Validating user input is critical because it is the basis for generate...

In Sugar 8 / Spring '18, Sugar administrators can now configure API platforms using the Administration panel. The Platform extension is still available if you want to register a custom API platform as part of a Module Loadable Package....

The Sugar Winter '18 release is fast approaching! Hopefully you are as excited about the new Sugar UX as I am!As usual, Lauren Schaefer and I will be hosting a developer webinar to help get you and your customers prepared for the new Winter '18 (7.1...

TLDR Developing Sugar on Docker, get up to speed now!The long versionWhat are Docker containers?If containers for you are more than the two pictures below… then you are in the right place!As you might be aware, there has been and there c...

Sugar v11 REST APIIn order to support some cool new dashboard features, we made some enhancements to our Dashboard APIs in the Fall '17 release. So we added a new REST API version, v11, in that release in order to ensure clients and integrations tha...

RESTful APIs have always been a big part of the Sugar application, as well as the most appropriate touchpoint for integrating with other enterprise systems. Unfortunately, for a long time they weren't tested especially appropriately. Traditionally, ...