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  • Using Odoo – Creating a Contract That Includes a Sales Order

    Using Odoo – Creating a Contract That Includes a Sales Order

    In this tutorial we will explain how to create a contract for a customer while including a sales order on the contract in Odoo. We will break this into three section, which are: # **Starting the Contract** – Opening a contract and providing all necessary information for the terms. # **Renewal** – Set dates for…

  • Using Odoo – Delivery/Pickup Options for a Rental

    Using Odoo – Delivery/Pickup Options for a Rental

      In this module we will touch on how to Find a Delivery for a rental, Transfer the product from our stock, and then pick the bin for the product in Odoo. We will be learning how to accomplish this in the “Sales”, section as well as the “Warehouse” section. We will be dividing this…

  • Using Odoo – Creating a Quote/Sale Order with a Rental

    Using Odoo – Creating a Quote/Sale Order with a Rental

    This tutorial will explain how to create a sales order for a rental in Odoo. We will break this into three sections, which are: # **Starting the order** – We will open a new order and add all customer information. # **Adding an item to the order** – Select the item and stipulations of the…

  • Dynamic DNS With CloudFlare – Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

    This tutorial will walk you through the process of setting up Dynamic DNS with CloudFlare on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter (or really any form of Linux). Please see [[ddns-using-libcloud-edgerouter|here]] if you need to accomplish this using [[https://libcloud.apache.org/|LibCloud]], or [[dynamic-dns-with-ubiquiti-edgerouter|here]] if you are using a supported provider. === The Steps === # First, we will need to…

  • Node MakeMKV v0.1.0-beta

    I have just released the first [[https://github.com/lasley/node-makemkv/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta|beta]] of [[https://blog.laslabs.com/projects/remote-makemkv/|Node-MakeMKV]]. This project wraps makemkvcon to create a MakeMKV Web UI. This release contains a significant amount of bug fixes from the alpha release. There is now also support for ripping of directories and image files located inside of `source_dir` (as defined in the settings.) Current planned…

  • Benchmarking Go, Node, Python & PyPy

    I was just recently introduced to [[http://golang.org/|Go]], and it seems to offer some great features. I wrote a few simple benchmarks to evaluate Go against [[http://nodejs.org/|Node.js]] and [[https://www.python.org/|Python]]/[[http://pypy.org/|PyPy]] in terms of speed. The results initially surprised me, but a user comment guided me to update Golang because they have made a lot of optimizations since…

  • Node-MakeMKV v0.0.1-alpha

    I have just finished and released the Alpha version of Node-MakeMKV. It is defintely rough around the edges at this point, but it seems to work well enough to warrant public release. Take a look [[projects:remote-makemkv|here]] for the script and associated docs.

  • Installing Node.js and CoffeeScript

    This tutorial is intended to provide a simple walk through on installing [[http://nodejs.org/|Node.js]] and [[http://coffeescript.org/|CoffeeScript]]. ==Pre-reqs== * Install `Git` {{{ lang=bash # RHEL/CentOS sudo yum install git # Debian/Ubuntu sudo apt-get install git }}} ==Node.js== * Clone the node.js git repo {{{ lang=bash git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git }}} * Compile and install {{{ lang=bash cd node…

  • Python CloudFlare API Library

    I have just recently started experimenting with [[https://www.cloudflare.com/|CloudFlare’s]] services & API. In order to migrate my current framework, I required the ability to work with this API via Python. [[http://libcloud.apache.org/|Apache’s Libcloud]] does not have a CloudFlare driver, and the requirements for building a supported driver require quite a bit more time than rolling a library…

  • Creating A Python Plugin Framework With Metaclasses

    This tutorial will walk you through creating a generic plugin framework in Python using metaclassing. This framework can be easily be dropped into existing code to allow seamless integration of Python plugins. There are essentially 3 parts to this framework: # **The mount point** – This provides a central location between the plugins and the…

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