Koo client for OpenERP, is progressing steadily. Among other enhancements there are: integration of maps with contacts in the application, a new view to show any information on a calendar, a new design and better performance in charts generation, access to most frequent functionalities from the system tray icon and speedups in forms loading. Here you can see some images of what will be available in the final version.

In May 16th will take place the first Spanish Conference on Tiny ERP. This event that has been organized by Acysos with the collaboration of Zikzakmedia and NaN, will be held in Zaragoza and is open to everyone after registration. You may find more information in the official announcement.

See you there!

PostgreSQL 8.3 has been released. This new version introduces a number of functionalities and big performance improvements. Some of the new additions include full text searching integrated into core, support for SQL/XML standard, enumerated types and arrays of composite types. Performance improvements include an important reduction on data files size, improved performance in UPDATEs and DELETEs (HOT) among others.

At NaN, we are happy to have been able to make a couple of small contributions in this new version, on one side by incorporating the documentation of contrib modules into main PostgreSQL documentation, letting those modules to be known to many users that didn't know of their existance. On the other, starting the development of a small performance improvement when using temporary tables and sorting files.

You can see a list with all changes at 8.3 release notes.

We've recently incorporated new members to KTiny's family. They are called nanos (or NaNos as we'd say in NaN), and they are small applications created using the KTiny framework. They are built to fulfill a very specific functionality. Starting at next KTiny's beta (the second one) you'll be able to test some.

By now, we'll show you a screen shoot with a couple of NaNos, one integrated with the desktop using superkaramba from KDE 4.0 and that shows the number of requests pending to be solved. The other one is a small program to see the list of pending requests. Take a look at them and create your own NaNos! At the hackers mailing list we'll be happy to help you.

Updated! We've added a new screenshot where you can see a NaNo with a NaN style applied. Many times it's not even necessary to modify a NaNo to adapt it to a desired design.