Since Microsoft has tied up with all PC manufacturers to sell their PCs with pre-installed windows, most of us are familiar with Windows and proprietary software run on it, not many are aware of free software is now available for any task you want to do. I am using Linux (Ubuntu) on Intel celeron N2840 notebook, which I had bought it a few years ago at the price of less than US$210, and I have no problem of using it for office tasks, video editing and software development, this is one of the great benefit once you are Linux user, it's not necessary to buy expensive notebook. Below are the lists of free software I am using, and I think it is worth recommending, you can download and try it by clicking the software website link provided. Linux is good enough to replace Windows: Most Linux distributions looks similar to Windows and Mac operating systems, and support most same types of software you are using before, such as word processors, photo video editors, and so on. Linux is a lo
Software customization is important for your business, It's allows you to meet unique business requirements, streamline processes and integrate with other software. FrontAccounting is a free opensource software, and using easiest scripting language PHP to make customization more easier and faster, thus minimize costs. The customization can be done via creating extensions, and this is a better way as in future software upgrading will not affect the extensions module. This article is a Quick start guide that help developers who are new to FrontAccounting, I am using a simple example to walk you though the creating extension and report process. The follow diagram shows the structure of extension folders (blue) and files (green). Not all files are necessary, to create an extension without additional MySql table and report, you'll only need the hooks.php file and your extension program file, I am going to use a program "item inquiry" to illustrate the procedure of creating