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BambooInvoice 0.75

There''s a new version of BambooInvoice up and live at http://www.bambooinvoice.org.  Its the humble 0.75.

I think its a big step forward in user friendliness.  Since I originally released Bamboo as a proof of concept code for Code Igniter, it has been gaining a lot of popularity even amoung non-coders.  For this I'm incredibly impressed, and eternally grateful.  Its so gratifying to know that other people find your work useful.  But due to its humble beginnings, Bamboo suffered from a few "bugs" mostly due to perception differences between how it "should" work, and how it did work.  So this release is a combination of bug fixes, user interface enhancements, and installation improvements.

screenshot of BambooInvoice 0.75

I believe it fixes any missing functionality.  Notably, emailing invoices should work flawlessly, I've updated the CI codebase to 1.5.2, implemented native_session (I love that library, and mentioned it in my Top 8 Code Igniter Wiki resources), made clearer docs and installation procedures, and cleaned up the code.  The userguide now provides suggestions for removing the index page, as well as implementing your own custom logos.

There are still some legacy issues in there, for example some db code that should really be in a model - but otherwise it should be good.  I've been using this version (more or less) personally for about 10 days, and I've not noticed anything noteworthy, but I still welcome any input, bugs, etc.

Thanks.  I welcome all suggestions, improvements and general thoughts on this project, its a work of love.

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Comments

Gilles wrote on

Great job, Derek! Congrats! This version works fine on my local environment. I will test it on my production environment this week.

Ankur wrote on

Looks good! I’m going to fool around with it when I have a bit of time

Derek wrote on

Great.  Thanks both.

Pradesh wrote on

Thanks Derek

I’m not using it in production, but BambooInvoice holds a special place in my decision to use the CI framework, as it was (warts abnd all!) a reference point for me to start devloping CI based applicatons.