Ken Brill's Mashing SugarCRM Presentation Notes

Ken is one of our open-source hires. He contributed to our forums then came on board.

Ken is demonstrating Google docs inside of SugarCRM. That's actually an awesome use of it.
One of his older hacks was using Y! getting local time based on where the client was.
Next up is bringing Google Gadgets to the SugarCRM Dashlets
Some of the more useful ones he mentioned are "Hotjobs so you can look for your new job while you screw around on your current one..." "Britney Watch"
He's not a fan of Dr. Pepper Cherry Chocolate - "my god that's a horrible mashup"
"ModuleBuilder is the best thing that happened to Sugar in my opinion."
side note: Ken's St. Louis accent is coming through with his "alls I had to do" :-)
note to self: double check any syntax highlighting before giving a presentation. Zend Studio's lime green highlight doesn't come through the screen that well.
note to self: Get Ken running APC or Zend Platform ;-)
His Google Doc presentation is pretty spiffy. I was hoping for an embedded Google Doc inside SugarCRM, it currently just gives you a list view which is useful by itself, but if it was inside Sugar it would be even cooler.
He used the Zend Framework/Google Doc examples to actually interface with Google Docs.
Second up was a Google Gadget mashup. It was extremely straight forward, just pull in the <script> value inside a set of {literal} tags in the Smarty template for a dashlet.
note to SugarCon guys: The presentation could have been cool as a BYOL presentation and actually created one or two mashups on the fly