Blog posts by kurund

It's been a while, i was trying to get Eclipse-BIRT working on my machine (Ubuntu Edgy). Finally got success few days back.

Here are the steps for installation:

1) Get the Eclipse using Ubuntu update manager.

sudo aptitude install eclipse

2) BIRT package is not installed by default in Eclipse. So use Eclipse update manager and select package BIRT Reporting Tool.

You might get few errors: - Could not write in /usr/lib .....

chmod -R 777 /usr/lib/eclipse

- I also got following errors: Requested operation cannot be performed because it would invalidate the current configuration. See details for more information.

Last weekend Rupam Jaiswal, our CiviCRM team developer from India got married. A few of us from the team had gone for the wedding. It was great to see the transition from a developer whose days revolved around putting together code, into a bride who was now busy getting things together for the big day. She looked resplendent in her traditional Indian outfit.

We have integrated Selenium Testing Tool for CiviCRM v1.6, in addition to existing UnitTests for checking api functionality. Selenium automated tests allows user to test most of the civicrm functionality.

For more details check the documentation

It's been almost 2 wonderful years that I have been working on CiviCRM project, since we started development in India. From then things have changed. We started with a single file, (I think it was CRUD.php) which no longer exists :). What excites me the most about CiviCRM is the challenges that we face in implementing new features and the opportunity to work on advanced technologies. The scope is simply unlimited...

CiviCRM is not just another software, it is driven by the needs of the community, which makes this project very special to me. Since this software has also simultaneously been developed in US and Poland, makes it global in nature. This project has been crafted meticulously, so that there is a lot of scope for extensibility and it can be tailor-made to suit the requirements of host of organizations and non-profits. A lot of credit needs be given to the pioneers of this project, who are harbingers of the today's IT Industry.