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Good testing is critical for providing quality software. Some testing is always manual but writing automated tests to do the heavy lifting is a key part of modern coding practices. For developers, the discipline of writing automated tests helps to proactively identify and control edge-cases, and regularly running tests helps to identify problems quickly (before they grow and cause greater harm).

I am Yashodha Chaku, one of the core team members of CiviCRM. I stumbled into the Civi-world quite by chance. After graduating from college with Bachelors in Computers Science I happened to join Web Access (which hosts a Civi team in India) in 2006 and started working on CiviCRM. When I started off CiviCRM was in its nascent stages (1.4 I guess) and it has come a long way ever since.

Mthulisi Ncube, Data Coordinator at MSF South Africa says: “We are working closely with our service provider Ixiam who have helped us customise CiviCRM.  MSF South Africa has been using CiviCRM for over a year now to store and manage all our fundraising contacts and donor database.

Kabissa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1999. Our mission is to help African civil society organizations to put Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to work for the benefit of their communities.

Cividesk will offer on-line CiviCRM training sessions in September on Contacts, Events and Contribution management.  All sessions are two hours in length and are designed for new users or as a refresher course for those already working in CiviCRM.  

Contact Management: September 9th, 9:00 - 11:00 am (Mountain Standard Time) Click here to register. 

CiviTeacher organizes clear and concise videos into a portable and searchable training library.

The team is super excited to announce that the seventh beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

CiviCooP just received it's yearly bookkeeping report and as it turns out there is still some money left after all CiviCooP participants got paid for their work and our costs (marketing, website, CiviCRM partnership, community, administration) are paid. So we decided to donate the rest (roughly about 2000 euro) to the CiviCRM community. Speaking to Michael McAndrew and Dave Greenberg we will contribute to the Continuous Integration project, which is pretty technical so hard to fund.

Bootstrap CSS for CiviCRM UI was conceived as a project to provide a templating layer to native CiviCRM elements.  For the past three months, my efforts for focussed on this. As we come to the end of my GSoC project, here are some updates.

I have a few payment processing related projects on the go but having just gotten the first one to alpha stage I thought it would be a good time to share some thoughts (& try to get them straight in my mind). The project I am referring to is developing a Cybersource Secure Acceptance POST payment processor. For this payment processor I had a big challenge and also a big opportunity.