The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Thank you all for being part of this community. /Thibaud
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 49,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 18 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Open Access Week is less than a month away! Now in its eighth year, Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the dangerous costs of keeping knowledge…
I will be at Inforum 2014 next week. I will demo my Google Glass app with M3 picking lists. Come check it out at the M3 Labs booth in The Hub area. I will be with Marie-Pascale Authié and Peter A Johansson of Infor GDE Demo Services. My contact info is here.
Please join this campaign! I am collecting signatures for a petition to Infor Product Development for making their source code available.
I believe it is important for users, customers, partners and employees to be able to study the source code of the software they use most of their day, for testing, debugging, troubleshooting, support, and enhancement purposes. Infor Product Development already makes the source code of M3 Java programs available under certain license restrictions; fantastic. Now let’s petition them for doing the same with other great products such as Infor Smart Office, Infor Grid, Infor Process Automation, M3 Web Services, Customer Lifecycle Management, etc.
Please sign the petition.
I submitted the following session in the Call for Papers of Inforum 2014 in New Orleans in September:
M3 ideas: social media, open source, and Google Glass
This session will talk about:
Includes illustrations with M3 customers.
Would you like to see this session at Inforum 2014? Please vote here below and let me know what you think.
Today at the Microsoft Build conference, in San Francisco where I live, I met with Peder, Peter, and Karin of the Infor Smart Office Product Development team who came from Sweden for the conference. Peder is a software developer for the UI, and Peter & Karin are software architects, and Karin maintains the official Smart Office blog where they all author posts. We talked about Smart Office SDK, web development, and more. It was nice to meet again!
I’m pleased to inform you guys that I joined Ciber – an Infor partner – as of December 9. I will continue to work on M3 and will continue to participate in the M3 community. You can find my latest contact information on http://thibaudlopez.net. I’m looking forward to working with you.
I’m announcing the start of an open source project: address validation for M3.
Address validation is the ability for the user to enter a partial or incorrect address, get a list of possible matches, chose the valid address, and save it in M3. The goals are: reduce data entry time, ensure goods will reach their destination, minimize shipment returns, accurately calculate taxes, etc.
I implemented address validation for several customers in the past years while at a previous job, and I proposed that the source code becomes a product available to every customer. I believe address validation should come standard with M3 as it is of great service. The project was ready for distribution in 2009 but it got stuck in the legal department because of a conflict with the licenses of the respective address providers. For example, it seems the company couldn’t sell software that uses the free Google Maps API. So now that I quit my last job and haven’t started a new one, I decided to re-ignite the idea as free and open source software. In that way there are no legal conflicts.
Also, I cannot re-use any of the source code nor material I wrote while at any previous job since all the data is intellectual property of that company, so I will have to re-write everything from scratch. And I need your help.
The goals are to provide address validation for M3 with choice of the following address providers:
I’m looking to include more local address providers in: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, etc. If you know of any, let me know.
The product will be self-configurable, starting with the following M3 programs :
It will be a client-side implementation for Smart Office using:
With plans to support H5 Enterprise (HTML5/JavaScript) in the future.
It will be made available as free software under the GNU General Public License V3.0 license. It permits commercial use, distribution, and modification. And it requires source be made available, license and copyright notice be included, and changes be indicated. It’s copyleft instead of copyright.
Also, the resulting code will be subject to the licenses of the respective address providers: Google Maps, etc.
Also, this project is a good opportunity for me to contribute to the community, and to learn Git revision control.
I started a repository on GitHub here: https://github.com/ThibaudLopez/AddressValidation
Send me feedback. Let me know what you think. Tell your colleagues. And if you want to be a contributor, come help us.
/Thibaud
I quit Infor. As of December 6, 2013 I no longer work for Infor. It has been an incredible 14 year adventure with Intentia Consulting in Paris, France, with Intentia Research & Development in Stockholm, Sweden, with Lawson Software in Chicago, and with Infor in San Francisco. I’m grateful for everything I learned, and I yet have more to learn. I’m moving on. Stay tuned. I no longer have my infor.com email address nor my mobile phone. I will update my new contact information here on the blog and on my website as soon as I have it. /Thibaud
New blog! I found this blog LBI Note as I was searching the Internet. Ït’s a blog about “Lawson BI (LBI) Intelligence, BPW, QlikView, Crystal, M3 Analytics, S3 Analytics” maintained by “a team of friendly Business Intelligence consultants who have traveled miles worldwide to make you (customers) happy and help you get the most of Lawson/Infor BI, QlikView, Cognos, SAP HANA, OBIEE and more…” I added it to the list of blogs in my Links page.
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