Site Creator v4.0, Copyright (c) 2007 MSI - Mushroom Systems International (AU) http://www.mushroomsys.com/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:08:45 +1100 en-us (c) 2007 We are please to announce that some development work we have been doing in Python has been released back to the open source community and has been incorporated in the core product.

Recently, we began work on an excellent Python project called python-excel, which allows developers (like us) to create Excel XLS files dynamically in code, without needing Microsoft Excel installed on the PC or server. In fact, the files can be read or created even on a Linux based system. Although the system was excellent, we found that it did not support the Autofit function that is commonly used in Excel to make all the columns automatically size themselves to the content within. So, we decided to write the code and create that functionallity within the code library.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:08:45 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newsPythonExcel.html Mark the 23rd of September 2010 in your diaries.. That was the day that the first successful login and form load occurred on the new Python based DAP client!

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At last - after many 100's of hours of R&D, the first complete end to end client to server tests are complete - and it's all looking good. The new version performs significantly faster than the legacy ERP based version, and the deveopment evnironment means that the amount of code a developer needs to write for a given task is dramatically reduced. We have seen reductions of 90% of code size for the same outcome!

Watch thi...]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:50:18 +1000 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newspyDAP2.html MSI are very please to announce that the latest incarnation of it's successful DAP product has now been created. pyDAP is born.

Our DAP (Dynamic Applications Platform) product has been very successfully implemented at several of our ERP customers. It has bought a new level of functionality, productivity and professionalism to their ERP product over the past three years. The only "problem" with this great system is that it's based on the Legacy ERP server as it's backend!

In January 2010, we began the huge task of a complete redesign and rewrite of the server-side engine that drives DAP. We chose the (very cool) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:11:37 +1000 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newspyDAP.html
The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.

Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection - and that won't be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.

Yesterday (19th March) Senator Conroy confirmed that websites on the Government's clos...]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:31:19 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/saveTheNet.html As some of you may have noticed, our Web Site and Support Portals were both down for the first time ever today (11/02/2009). The outage was caused by a critical fault at the server level that rendered all our systems inoperative for over 12 hours! Would you believe, our redundant backup server ALSO failed.. It took twelve hours of concerted effort to put things right, so sorry if it appeared we were ignoring you.

We sincerly apologise for any problems this may have caused, and hope that things will settle down over the next few days. The systems are back up and running, but there is still work to be done. This has been scheduled for out of hours time.

So - Business as Usual! :-)
...]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:18:18 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/siteDownNews.html Well, the Bike Challenge Fund Raiser was a huge success all 'round. Warwick managed to be the 4th largest individual fund raiser out of 7000+ riders, with a total over $2000.00! A big thanks to all the customers and friends who helped that happen.

Warwick's ride went better than planned, with him completing the 100K course in just on 4 hours. The average speed of over 25Km/Hour actually put him in the next speed category. As Warwick said after the ride "It was a lot easier than I expected - I guess all those Saturday morning rides have paid off!"

As promised, the hall of fame winner for the largest Corporate Donation goes to...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:25:19 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newsBikeResults.html As part of a growing tradition in Brisbane, this year marks the forth anniversary of the 100Km "Southbank to Southport" bike challenge. Riders from all over the state will come together to raise funds and awareness for two great charities - namely The Heart Foundation and Diabetes Australia (Qld). Last year, over 7000 riders took part.

Our director Warwick Prince (an avid biker) has taken up the challenge and has signed for the full 100Km leg. "I've been back on the bike since the start of the year and am looking for more challenges - The 100Km event is just the ticket! I've set a personal fund raising target amount of $10,000.00, and I trust that customers, friends and family will get behind me and help me reach that goal." It's a great cause after all (And a tax deduction to boot).
Site Creator has undergone some seriously cool changes. New page management features, better control of content in large sites, and best of all - it now has complete multi language support!

What does this mean? Well, if you need to have your web site in two or more languages, now it's incredibly easy to manage. Images can be language linked, or independent. Pages that don't have a version in the language of choice will automatically default back to the "base" language of the site - in our case English. This eliminates replicating a site simply so you can have a few pages in a different language.

Our Dynamic Applications Platform has always had complete l...]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:03:15 +1000 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newsMultiLanguage.html As most of you will be aware, on Saturday night most of the world switched off the lights for Earth Hour 2008.

Earth Hour is an international event that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8pm local time until 9pm to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions. It may also help reduce light pollution, and in 2008, coincides with the beginning of National Dark Sky Week in the USA.

We at Mushroom Systems did our bit by shutting down our servers for the first time in 5 years! In fact, we used the opportunity to test our UPS and power outage protection plans under combat conditio...]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:53:58 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/newsItemEarthHour.html We're Celebrating!

MSI turned 20 this year and it's a good feeling to have some of our original customers still with us.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for your congratulations and well wishes, and also your continued support over the years.

I was going through some archives the other day, and found some of our original invoices and statements. Can you believe that our charge out rate used to be $50 / hour! My how times have changed and how technologies have changed. In those same archives, I also unearthed monthly phone bills in excess of $1500...]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:10:36 +1100 http://www.mushroomsys.com/celebrate20.html