We here at Sugar want to wish you a very happy holiday and a prosperous 2008!

We have made a special podcast to celebrate both the holiday season and the long-awaited release of our Sugar 5.0 software. You can listen to this podcast via iTunes or you can also click on this link to launch the podcast directly.

We’ll be back with new editions of the 60 Second Sugar Snippets podcasts in the beginning of January.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

-The Sugar Online Team

Do check out the documentation we’ve provided that details the architecture of the 5.0 MVC (Model-View-Controller). Thanks go to Sugar Dev team for this very revealing documentation.

Superman has a pretty cool thread going. He posted a pic of his workplace and others have followed suit.

We have posted a great step-by-step tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a new module using the Module Builder tool (which is part of the 5.0 release). This exercise was part of the System Integrators Boot Camp held a few weeks ago, and is a good exercise for anyone who needs to get up to speed on the new 5.0 Module Builder.

To find the tutorial, go to the Tutorials section of the Developer website and click on the Creating New Modules and Relationships link (located in the 5.0 area of the page).

We hope you find this tutorial useful! There are more to come…

SugarCRM introduced the momentous Sugar 5.0 release yesterday. After a long development cycle, Sugar 5.0 is worth the wait: with do-it-yourself features like the Module Builder, non-technical users can build new modules from pre-defined templates or create a brand new module from scratch.

Sugar Module Builder allows companies to track information them without having to make costly customizations. With Module Builder, companies can extend their CRM systems to capture all important information to users and managers.

Looking ahead, SugarCRM envisions Sugar as more than just a CRM, but as a development platform. To build competitive advantage, a company needs a CRM system that will meet its exact requirements across marketing, sales and support. Sugar 5.0 CRM platform capabilities provide the ability to customize Sugar to match how a specific company does business.

We’ve started our planning for SugarCon 2008, our second conference for Sugar customers and developers. The conference will be held from February 6-8 in San Jose, CA, at the lovely Dolce Hayes Mansion.

For more information or to register for this event, please visit this page.

Hello all!

I’ve started a discussion in the Sugar Forums around upgrade-safe developer tools. Once we’ve collected enough input, you should begin seeing some of these ideas come to life very soon. Post your ideas!

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?p=93727

Hey developers, check out December’s Project of the Month, a great tool called KlipFolio from the folks at Serence in Ottowa, Canada. It demonstrates how you can use the SOAP APIs to develop a useful desktop tool.

The project is interesting from a development standpoint not only for the methods they used to create the tool, but for how they used SugarForge as a “test bed” to solicit community feedback on their product before taking it to a commercial audience. They intend to release the final product on SugarExchange in the near future.

You can read the interview here.

Collin on the Sugar dev team has posted about implementing changes in the new metadata world. Nice synopsis. Check it out.

Hey developers- looking for some extra income or to expand your development contract jobs?

Check out this week’s podcast, which features Jeff Campbell from our Partners group. He suggests several ways to make money by partnering with Sugar’s partners. There is plenty of work out there for good developers, and we’re here to help you make money with Sugar.