Automatically Start YouTube Video Playback

When modifying homepage of SprinxCRM Online, I needed our YouTube videos to start automatically.


I did a very quick Google search and found this article so simple adding

&autoplay=1


just did it all :-)

SprinxCRM does twitter

I have created SprinxCRM twitter. I do not want it to be dead and I will update it with new things regularly as they appear in the release plan of SprinxCRM. Stay tuned :-)

Maemo Mono programming links

Maemo on Mono


Example Programs from the Gtk# NodeView Tutorial


GtkSharp TreeView Tutorial


How To Write A Mono Application

Prevayler and Bamboo

When thinking about offline client synchronization, I have recalled Prevayler and his impplementation Bamboo. I am just thinking about uploading all the 'change files' to the server and then playing them there. I know that there is no conflict resolution and so on, but this might not be that difficult. Hopefully there will be time at Saturday to try to iimplement that ;-)

How to use MonoDevelop for Maemo

I needed to create a simple application for Nokia N810 running maemo. Because I am used to C# and Microsoft.NET and I knew that there is Mono available for Maemo, I decided to write it in C# using MonoDevelop.

Everything is working fine, but you have to change the GTK# support exactly for 2.10.3 in MonoDevelop, Project Options, General, GTK# Settings, Options. If you do not do that, when you run the application on your Nokia, you get The following assembly referenced from ... could not be loaded.

The advantages of crisis

Nowadays when the financial crisis is slowly changing into recession, we are reading more a more positive news about what this is bringing to us. Not only anti-cyclical sector is starting to grow as people are remodeling their houses instead of buying new ones, dealers of used cars are selling more and people are going more to the sport centers, but at least this helps us understand more what has happened.

These days investors are mostly putting money into safe investments like gold, bonding funds or state bonds.

But business needs to take actions as well and there are four areas you should concentrate on:

1. Save time
2. Increase revenue
3. Cut costs
4. Improve efficiency


There are many ways how to get this done, but there are three main domains that may help fast and may be achieved easily:

1. Make sales force productive sooner
2. Eliminate travel and delivery costs
3. Improve the productivity of channel partners


Although it might not be clear, you can make a lot with with a sales force automation tool. If you allow the sales people to fill prepared forms instead of writing sales order, activity reports and call sheets and that saves a lot of time. And if you are using not only a sales force automation tool, but CRM, not only it allows you sell more because of the reduction of non-selling time, but there are other people benefiting - mainly marketing. And if we are in the middle of crisis, where would a business owner invest more then in the marketing? Did you know that many successful marketing agencies and consultancies were actually started during a recession?

Have you heard that CRM is not easy to work with, you have to enter tons of data and is it costly? Have a look at SprinxCRM and see for yourself.

The end of silence

I know I know ... I have not been posting anything here for another 3 month, but I was really extremely busy with all the changes that were needed as the result of the financial crisis that started so long ago and nowadays even we here in the Central Europe feel the consequences.

But things are changing a lot, I promise :-)