(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...
After many years of using Gitter for real-time chat with our users, we’re pleased to announce our move over to Discord. Gitter has treated us well, but Discord gives us a little more tooling and flexibility. We’ve been running it in beta for the past few weeks, and the response has been terrific so far. We’ve even got a channel for GoodForms in case you have any implementation...
Howdy everyone – I hope everyone has been keeping safe during these trying times. I just wanted to give you all a kind of rough roadmap for what the next few months hold for us, the features we’re hoping to get into v6 of Snipe-IT, and what that timeline looks like. Please make sure you’re upgraded to PHP 7.4 or higher before Snipe-IT v6 launches. Timeline We’re...
Validation is one of those tiresome things that is archaic and should have been solved for good already, but because there are so many use-cases and scenarios – and therefore options – it can be tough to figure out which is the right solution to the problem at hand. As often happens in Laravel, we have a multitude of possible ways to handle validation. The most straightforward way is...