Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Ofbiz Tutorial

Jacopo started Ofbiz tutorial as series of Blog posting. Ofbiz developers will love them. Second in series is on Creating Ofbiz Component.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Ofbiz Warehouse Management System

Ofbiz has all 9 modules you will need to manage your warehouse.
  • WMS
  • Accounts Receivable (AR)
  • Billing
  • Order Management
  • Sales Analysis
  • Electronic Data Interchange (Oagis)
  • Transportation Management
  • Web Visibility
  • Data Mapping tool
WMS is software system designed to direct activities (plan, issue, pick, pack, repack, ship) and control flow of inventory throughout the warehouse premises. It must interface with other systems in enterprise and peripherals that help execute actions.
Resources
http://ofbiz.apache.org
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
http://demo.hotwaxmedia.com

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The PS3 is the best thing that ever happened to human kind.

Until recently game consoles did not provide a real life gaming effect. This forced many enthusiasts to go out of their homes and play actual games. It was acceptable when a person wanted to play soccer or football. But there were some individuals who wanted to play war games. Unfortunately, those gamers could not go outside their homes to truly simulate war and nor did game consoles capture the real life strategy of war. The situation got worse when opponents played from countries that do not even have a good internet service like Afghanistan or Iraq.

One player got into a similar situation. George W Bush woke up one morning with the desire to play war games with his friends in Iraq. He had no choice but to go out with a real army because the launch of PS3 was delayed. I think Sony was facing some technical problems with cell processors. Bush decided to become President of US, so it happened. It was easy because he was born in the Imperial Bush family of US.
This war game has lasted for about 7 years. Bush thinks he won, but actually he ran out of time. His time is over. I feel it as well because now gas is back to less then $2.50 from all time high of $4.159. I remember when this emperor (also called President in modern English) was preparing for this war game, gas used to be $1.099.

Thanks to Sony and Nintendo, we now have good quality game consoles in all kind of sizes with real life graphics. I hope Obama has some money left from his campaign funds. I'd like him to buy each kind of good quality game consoles for every member of Bush family so they don't have to run another election for US President.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Green Software

Green living is buzz word these days. There are companies advertising their contribution in green earth effort. I am also sold on this idea of green living. Now more and more I remember to switch of lights when not in use, use paper instead of plastic, recycle paper and many more things.
How about a Green Software! I have chance to influence capital expense decision of our company. We just completed construction of our new office for Software development center in Indore (India). Instead of using air conditioner we are using evaporative air cooling plant. This should result in about 70% saving in electricity bill.
We have observed that in training rooms people tend to work in pair. Our new training room is designed to enable pair programming. This reduced number of heating stations (workstations) by 50%, resulting in reduced contribution towards global worming and reduced usage of high demand commodity i.e electricity.
Lots of windows and generous sky light helps reduce requirements for electrical lights. Natural lights coupled with energy efficient light fixtures will reduce the electricity requirements for lighting whole office by 70% as compared to conventional office.
Very soon we'll start looking at solar panels as alternate source of electricity.