We have hit a tipping point in world wide Emoji usage. We really must work like we live, because the perfect two character combination of pizza and beer and others like it are starting to appear in business emails and other business communicati...

Sugar Summer '18 introduced confirmation links to allow customers to gather affirmative consent for using email addresses in campaigns. Check out Sugar Summer '18 (8.1.0) Overview for Sugar Developers for more details.As discussed in Why SugarC...

While we introduced PHP 7.1 support in the Sugar 7.9.0 release back in May 2017, we have up until now continued to support PHP 5.6. But PHP 5’s days are numbered. We will be dropping support for PHP 5.6 in the Sugar 8 and Spring ‘18 rele...

Hi there, Sugar Developers!We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar 8 and Spring ‘18 releases, so we’re hosting two webinars just for you!Webinar TopicsWe’ll discuss the big changes that are...

Post originally written by avlasovsugar.Alex Vlasov is an experienced Sugar Developer and contractor that works on the SugarCRM Engineering platform team. In this post, Alex shares advice to Sugar Developers for preparing their Sugar custo...

Sugar is a fantastic product that is built on a powerful platform! As Director of Solutions Consulting for the Americas and an architect by trade, I am often asked to describe Sugar's platform for a variety of audiences. I have a standardi...

Please don’t hate me. It’s not really my fault. I am sorry to say that every single Sugar developer needs to care about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data privacy in general. It is a sign of the times and part of the ...

What is the Sugar Metadata API?As you probably know, Sugar metadata encompasses the settings, data model (Vardefs), and visual layouts (Viewdefs) used by the Sugar application. The majority of changes made to Sugar using Sugar Studio, Module Builder...

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...