In last week's post on the Font Awesome 4.x upgrade in Sugar 7.6 we mentioned that Sugar Engineering has been putting together a compatibility package. This package can be installed into Sugar 7.6 instances to add Font Awesome 3.2.1 back. That package…

What are Prepared Statements? Prepared Statements , also known as parameterized statements, is a database feature that allows the same or similar queries to be executed with more efficiency and greater security. It has also been a common Sugar platform…

Post originally written by Vadzim Ramanenka. Sugar Performance Engineer Vadzim Ramanenka shares some tips for profiling Sugar code using our newly launched SugarCRM XHProf Viewer open source project. Profiling Sugar softly Whenever you encounter that…

Note from the SugarCRM team This post represents an individual customer's experience with using CloudFlare CDN. The results are pretty exciting! But here is a word of warning. SugarCRM does not officially support use of a Content Delivery Networks (CDNs…

At SugarCRM, we have been accelerating the rate at which we share technology with the Sugar Developer community. Back in June at UnCon , we shared more open source code examples and tools than ever before. In April, we announced Sucrose Charts and the…

Sugar and older versions of PHP The latest version of PHP that Sugar 6.5 supported was PHP 5.3 which was released back in 2009. That is a long time ago folks. A sizable portion of the Sugar Developer community was in grade school back when PHP 5.3 was…

To coincide with the release of Sugar 7.7, the Engineering team has released updated versions of Unit Tests and Performance tools. Requesting access to Sugar Test Tools Sugar Test Tools are in private Github repositories within the SugarCRM Github organization…

Subpanel Creep The Subpanels section is where you find related records for the current displayed Sugar record. This is a vital feature because it allows a user to get a unified view of all the CRM records related to a particular record. Who are the Contacts…

Sugar Engineering is proud to announce the Beta release of the open source Sidecar Debugger Tools project! Sidecar Debugger Tools This project was developed as part of the recent Partner hack week where it was a crowd favorite. Not only is this a great…

Do you write unit tests for your Sugar customizations? Do you performance test your Sugar on-site deployments? Every developer knows they should be building unit tests and performance tests but sometimes it is just too hard to get started from nothing…

In this post by Jelle Vink , SugarCRM's Security Architect and resident Elasticsearch expert, offers an explanation of how the Sugar Job Scheduler and Job Queue affects Sugar 7's record indexing behavior. Cron.php Execution When cron.php is executed,…

If you've used Sugar 7.5 or earlier then you have probably noticed that it take a few moments after a record appears for all the subpanels to finish being populated with data. This was because each subpanel generated a separate round-trip HTTP transaction…

If you've browsed the Sugar 7 JavaScript codebase much then you'll notice that we use Underscore.js all over the place. Use of _.each, _.bind, _.debounce, _.filter, and more are littered throughout the Sugar 7 codebase. It's not uncommon to see multiple…

Engineering wanted to let you know about a CSS change coming in Sugar 7.6 which is planned for release before end of June. There has been an upgrade to the library we use for our icons called Font Awesome . We will be upgrading from Font Awesome version…