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...

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....