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Re: Q: How do I enter opening balances for my accounts?

dobes_vandermeer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:16:16 -0000

Hi Kelly,
That should work fine, give it a try. Maybe we'll consider using the same
trick to make opening balances easier for other customers too - just let
them enter opening balances when they create their business and reconcile
the different as opening balance equity. If they want/need to clarify that
they can always adjust it themselves, I suppose.

Re: Faster GWT startup with objects embedded in the HTML host page

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:41:47 -0000

Sure, here's an example:

interface MyInitialData extends DictionaryConstants {
// ...
}

MyInitialData initialData = new MyInitialData() {
@Override
public UserInfo myUser() {
return myUser;
}
@Override
public AuthToken sessionToken() {
return token;
}

};

request.setAttribute("initialData", DictionaryConstantsWriter.serializeConstants("initialData", initialData, MyInitialData.class, true));

Then I use this inside a freemarker template as ${initialData}, along with the usual GWT stuff.

Re: Q: What is the best way to record a loan?

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:38:13 -0000

Hi Luke,
Yes, that would work well. This is especially a good approach if this is
how you actually pay the loan down - as a single payment covering principal
and interest amounts.

Re: Q: How can I customize the layout and appearance of my invoices?

dobes_vandermeer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:26:24 -0000

Hi moosebrain,

We haven't implemented that feature yet, so currently the first new template you create is made into the default for Download PDF, and any subsequent templates can only be selected when sending an email invoice. It's likely that this issue will be addressed before we take the custom template feature out of beta, to allow you to select a template when you click Download PDF.

Re: Do you have questions about the Business Case for Multi-Tenancy in SaaS? | Sixteen Ventures

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:29:07 -0000

I'm still skeptical about monetizing aggregate and benchmarking data, who buys it?

Re: Running Work in a Seperate Thread and Transaction in Glassfish using the WorkManager

dobes_vandermeer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:07:20 -0000

Hi Vamsi,
This is a glassfish-specific API that is not a standard, and is not
available in other containers as far as I know.

Hope that helps (or not!).

I don't know if WorkManager has a waitForAll() method, you'll just have to
go take a look at the source code and see what is there for use.

If you just want to run some jobs in a bunch of threads you can use the
standard Thread and ThreadPool APIs as well, WorkManager doesn't do anything
special except manage a list of "Work" objects and run them for you when the
thread is available.

Re: Q: Why do I have to pay for each business seperately?

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:30:11 -0000

Hi Dan,
We have thought about it but haven't set any pricing schedule for it yet.
If you're planning on paying for a lot of businesses let us know and we can
figure something out.

Thanks,
Dobes

Re: Clarity Accounting on the Air

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:11:11 -0000

Hi Canuque,
It does seem to be the natural course of a market that over time things
converge on a market leader, a market follower, and whole bunch of niche
players. Currently the SaaS accounting apps are niche players that are
hoping that the move to the web will disrupt the status quo and the market
will select a new leader - perhaps one of these new companies instead of the
established player. There are actually hundreds of small business
accounting software companies out there (if not thousands) serving the same
market, and they come and go and have varying degrees of success. However,
without a disruption to the market like SaaS it's unlikely any of these new
companies can take much market share from the dominant players.

Startups will sort themselves into categories automatically - failed, bought
out, or independently successful (possibly gone public). However, there's
no need to go to war to bring these outcomes about. If we focus on serving
our customers well, we'll automatically move ourselves further up the scale
away from failure and towards success. Whoever is the best at this can buy
out the others who didn't fail. So, there's no reason we can't have a
spirit of cooperation, since it's likely we'll either move on to another
business or end up working for the same business one day. Any nasty
behavior we show now will only hurt our business relationships later on.
Today's "competitors" can be tomorrows partners, investors, or purchasers
if we make a good impression.

Currently there is already a clear winner in North America - QuickBooks - so
the question is, can a new clear winner emerge? We'll see.

Re: Glassfish: Setting the context-root of a WAR inside an EAR | Dobesland

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:07 -0000

Did you try using an empty string? I'm not sure what else might work.
Another option is to set the war as the "default web application" in the
glassfish admin panel, I believe it's the virtual server configuration that
lets you do that.

Re: Bank Statement Reconciliation

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:49:57 -0000

Hi Steven,
We haven't updated this page to reflect the changes for bank statement
uploads. Try to download an OFX file, which is often listed as Quicken
(QFX), QuickBooks (QBO), or Microsoft Money (OFX).

Hope that helps,
Dobes

Re: SLF4J: Simple Logging Framework for Java | Dobesland

dobes_vandermeer — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:21 -0000

Hi Joe - I haven't done that, I am using glassfish java.logging. This tip
shows how to redirect other logging systems like log4j and commons-logging
to use java.logging within glassfish.

Re: Faster GWT startup with objects embedded in the HTML host page

dobes_vandermeer — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:15:16 -0000

LOL, nice idea ...

Re: Entering Payment Information

dobes_vandermeer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:04:42 -0000

Hi Rob,
Currently we don't have any payment gateway integration. It's very likely
that one day we will, but today it's not there. You can vote for this in
the feature requests forum to encourage us to add it sooner:
http://feedback.clarityaccounting.com

Re: Transfers

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:11:24 -0000

Hi there,
It sounds like your personal bank account is not being tracked accurately with
its counterpart in the accounting software. If it were, then the personal
bank account would have a positive balance you would be using to pay the
credit card off. If the personal credit card is also not fully tracked by
the accounting system you might as well not record anything - the business
wasn't involved so it doesn't need to show up on the business' books.
Otherwise, you'd want to pay off the negative balance by paying yourself;
see the article on getting owners' money in and out of the business for more
about this:

https://www.clarityaccounting.com/help/index.ph...

Re: Q: Should I include GST, PST, VAT, or other sales taxes when recording a Fixed Asset?

dobes_vandermeer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:59:48 -0000

Hi Jayadev,

As it says in the article above, include VAT in the cost of the asset if you cannot claim the VAT back from the government.

Re: Running Work in a Seperate Thread and Transaction in Glassfish using the WorkManager

dobes_vandermeer — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:43:17 -0000

Hello Lee,
In eclipse I just type "WorkManagerFactory" and press CTRL+SPACE. The
WorkManager implementation is here:

import com.sun.enterprise.connectors.work.CommonWorkManager;

You can just use new CommonWorkManager("thread-pool-name-here") to construct
it; this is basically what the WorkManagerFactory does except it allows you
to set a different implementation of WorkManager if desired.

The "Work" interface is here:

import javax.resource.spi.work.Work;

Note that these won't be available unless you have appserv-rt.jar in your
classpath.

Hope that helps!

Re: louisgray.com: Social Media Topics That Have Jumped The Shark

dobes_vandermeer — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:02:36 -0000

You make a good point, but I have to admit a voice in my head said "like this post???" when I was reading the first point about complaining about the echo chamber.

Re: Benefits of working from home

dobes_vandermeer — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:36:18 -0000

Thanks, Autumn.
Let us know what e-commerce system you are using - you can submit it to our
feature requests system http://feedback.clarityaccounting.com - and we may
support it directly in the future. Otherwise, it may be simplest to do a
periodic summary of e-commerce activity and enter that into Clarity
Accounting instead of individual transactions.

Hope that helps,
Dobes

Re: Just when I thought the past would disappear

dobes_vandermeer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:17:07 -0000

Strange parallels!

Red Rover was a lot of fun to play, although you needed to have a lot
of people (it was quite pointless with less than 4). Was your CoD mod
actually called "Red Rover" ? I played a lot of Call of Duty back
when it came out. Later I moved onto Counter-Strike and then Call of
Duty 2 for a while. I guess I've been a multi-player FPS junkie for
quite a while ...

My AAI term project was to write software to auto-generate home floor
plans, not long before you would have been working on allplans.com,
for what that's worth.

Are you going to make accounting software next ? :^P

Re: "Authority" and Why Twitter is the Next Google

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:29:47 -0000

I was saying the same thing the other day on twitter - the new "search" is asking on twitter. Seems to be an interesting phenomenon - information travels through the people network rather than by search. It's vintage in a way - this is how information used to travel before we had broadcast media like TV and newspapers.

Re: How Accounting Software for Mac and SaaS Will Get Your Business Running Efficiently

dobes_vandermeer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:34:06 -0000

Glad you like it ... there's plenty more where that came from.
Actually I've found that http://www.feedmyapp.com is the best
directory for SaaS apps I've found so far.

Re: How to use EJB Timers via the TimerService

dobes_vandermeer — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:59:51 -0000

Update: I previously had thought that timers surived a redeploy of the application, but I did some testing and determined this is not the case. Most likely my doubly scheduled timers were caused by application server restarts.

Re: How Accounting Software for Mac and SaaS Will Get Your Business Running Efficiently

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:44:19 -0000

Thanks for the tip about Fluid - Windows users can do this using
Google Chrome, too.

Re: How Accounting Software for Mac and SaaS Will Get Your Business Running Efficiently

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:43:18 -0000

Thanks for the note - do you think TSheets.com will be integrated with
Clarity Accounting one day? Do you have an API?

Re: GWT to EJB Bridging | Dobesland

dobes_vandermeer — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:25:49 -0000

Hi Chris,

This particular code is mostly unaffected by annotations. In fact, none of the code shown above is client-side code, it's all on the server and I could have used annotation if I had needed them (which I didn't).

FWIW, if the bean you are using is a stateless bean, you can replace getBean() with:

@EJB MyStatelessBean bean;
public Object getBean() { return bean; }

But if it is a stateful bean you have to use the more lengthy code above to store a persistent reference to that bean in the client's session.