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    • CommentAuthorjustin
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008 edited
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    Hi All,

    Some news re Simple Invoices

    Extension system:
    - Simple Invoices finally has an extension system! its long overdue and will help push Simple Invoices further
    - The extension system is very basic but works as expected
    -- for details on how it works and how to create extensions refer ( http://simpleinvoices.org/wiki/extensions_faq )
    - The main aim of Extensions is to enable easy development of alternate ideas for Simple Invoices and enable an easy way to distribute them
    -- previous if a new developer wanted to try something different they would have to do it outside of svn or their own private branch in svn
    --- which is overly complex and slows things down
    -- now developers can create a new extension to test out whatever ideas they want - if its good it'll go in Simple Invoices else it'll be available to everyone as an optional extension
    - also Extensions provide an clean way to create customisation of Simple Invoices to suit whatever purpose

    There are currently 2 extensions in development
    - 1 adds some much need ajax actions and allows for editable unit_cost and unit_price in invoice creation
    -- alot of people have asked for it for along time but its actually happening now
    - the other tranasforms Simple Invoices into a School Management System

    refer:
    - http://simpleinvoices.org/wiki/extensions /> - http://simpleinvoices.org/wiki/extensions_faq />
    Ajax:
    - As mentioned above I've finally got round to adding some simple ajax into the invoice creation screen
    - expect a much better invoice creation experience in the near future

    Wiki reorganisation:
    - I've merged a lot of the old pages of the wiki into 1 page (
    http://simpleinvoices.org/wiki/extensions ). This page is now the home to all info re add-one/extension type stuff for Simple Invoices

    Zoho invoices
    - you might of seen on techcrunch that Zoho released an invoice app - adds to the list of web2.0 style invoice apps around
    - only thing of interest is their invoice template - looks very familiar :)
    -- slide 11 in their product spiel thing

    Cheers

    Justin