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Developer Blog
New for Sugar 6.5 – Stronger password storage encryption
16 May, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
Sugar uses MD5 encryption for storing password data in the backend database. This works fairly well, as MD5 is a well understood algorithm and is implemented in just about every programming language, as well as on the database side as well. There’s just one issue, MD5 isn’t the most... More »
HOWTO: Drop a ListView in anywhere with the ListViewFacade
15 May, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
I’ve come across requests every so often to embed a ListView into a view you are building. This is actually quite simple to do, thanks to the ListViewFacade class. This class provides a unified interface to getting a ListView, whether the module is using the current Smarty based ListViews or... More »
New for Sugar 6.5: In with jQuery, and the beginning of the move away from YUI
14 May, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
Sugar 6.5 begins another component change for the platform, which is to include jQuery 1.6.4 as a core component going forward. Over time, we will be using jQuery to replace the usage of YUI thoughout the product; the goal is to initially replace YUI 3, and then longer term to replace the use of... More »
New for Sugar 6.5: SugarHttpClient
11 May, 2012
Posted by: John Mertic
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard recently is around the changes made to the Module Scanner in the product, which is strictly enforced in our On-Demand environment, namely about the inability to use curl or file_get_contents() directly to do outbound web service calls. For example,... More »
Longer SugarCRM Sessions
10 May, 2012
Posted by: Matthew Poer
In most server-setups, we find that the SugarCRM Session only lasts about half an hour. This is something I’ve gotten complaints about — users wanting longer sessions to ease the work day. I had spent time looking through the session-management code to find an answer and just wasn’t getting... More »
