News: Archive
2007-01-31 - 2007-02-27
Contact management and Microformats
Henri Bergius 01/02/07 16:45:30
I've blogged earlier on how OpenPsa 2 can utilize information pulled from the websites of organizations and persons entered into the system.
Today I added support for populating Microformatted contact information pulled using the nice hKit library. To use this feature simply create or edit a company and add their website URL:
OpenPsa will check on the background whether the site contains hCards, and populate any information gained to the contact entry.
For example, Bang & Bonsomer provides their address as a hCard in their site footer:
OpenPsa finds this information and adds it to the entry:
Couldn't be much easier. Now if only more sites provided hCards...
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Meet Nabaztag, our new general manager
Henri Bergius 02/02/07 09:44:34
Nemein has today acquired a new General Manager into the company. We are delighted to benefit from the experience and keen insights of the brand new Nabaztag. Here you can see it already settled in our office:
The idea with the WiFi bunny is to connect it as an ambient information display for our OpenPsa management suite. Some use cases we have so far envisioned include:
- Displaying status of the support ticket queue via the belly lights
- Alerting us of new tickets
- Reporting the number of invoiceable hours reported at the end of the day
- Alerting of calendar events happening at the office
- Generally handling status messages based on our Plazes locations
Technologically this should be quite simple using OpenPsa's integrated notification framework and the PEAR Services_Nabaztag library.
I will report when we have some concrete results with this.