Finally! Whew! Today we released v7 of Snipe-IT. This release upgrades the underlying framework from Laravel 8 to Laravel 10, and also now makes Snipe-IT compatible up to v8.3 of PHP. (PHP 8.1 is still open for long term security support until Jan 1, 2026.) Each major release has its friction points, of course. Anybody who says otherwise is lying. As an open source project, we have to cover a lot...
We’re thrilled to announce a new repo available today that will be a handy source of Google Apps Scripts for Snipe-IT users who need to manage a one-off data change and don’t have the time or coding resources to do it themselves.
We don’t have a lot up there just yet, but star or watch the repo for updates on when new scripts are released!
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(image via sentry.io) When our intrepid leader, @snipe, chose to open-source Snipe-IT, she was wondering which license to choose. First off, why did she want to open-source it; why not just keep it proprietary? Well, @snipe put it best when she said: We chose open source because we owe our entire careers to open-source. It only feels fair that we give back to this community that has given us so...
Grokability CTO Brady Wetherington gave his first conference talk (ever!) at LonghornPHP 2021 in Austin, TX in October about how the systems-sausage is made here at Grokability, and how to bootstrap a million-dollar open source SaaS business for just one dollar a customer per month. This talk gets into some of the the weeds of how our hosted platform works, some mistakes we made, some challenges...