Castell Computers

A quick search through the listed positions at Dice.com revealed a job posting by international IT Service Provider Silicomp
Positions listed include:

GOLDMINE QA ENGINEER
MSP/ASP LEAD
MANUAL TEST ENGINEERS
QA PERFORMANCE ENGINEER
QA - AUTOMATION
QA ESCALATION ENGINEER
SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER - WHITE BOX
HEAT - SENIOR QA SERVICE MANAGEMENT ENGINEER / LEAD

This comes on the heels of news that there are now seven developers on the GoldMine development team (as opposed to two or three.) So, now that Frontrange has filled out it’s development team, it looks like they’ve decided they’ll be needing a QA team again as well. An excellent move on their part, I think. This should help to get 7.0 to where it needs to be.

For the last few years, there have been conflicting messages coming from FRS on the availability of the GoldMine API document. In a welcome policy change, FrontRange has done the right thing and decided to provide GoldMine’s API documentation for partners and customers for FREE. This news from John Stillman, lead GoldMine developer and tireless GoldMine programming community supporter.

From the message:

There’s no cost to get the API document. If you can prove that you are a current FRS customer or partner, then you can get the API document for free.

This is a reversal from what I was told previously, where there was a fee involved with getting the API doc. This news makes me very happy, and I thank Greg and Jamal for making this decision.

That said, Starting with 7.0, you cannot legally sell anything that you make with the GM APIs without becoming a member of the TPP, which at this time is by invitation only from FRS and being revamped.

If you create an application in house, that’s fine. If you create a one-off application for a client - that’s fine. If you write an open source application, that’s fine. If you write a freeware application using the APIs that’s fine.

If you sell an application that uses the API without being a FRS partner, then you are breaking the EULA.

If you liked my article on using the GM+View tab to get directions to your contacts via Google maps, you’ll like this little trick.

While maps and other information in GoldMine’s GM+View tab is great, it is sometimes a bit trapped there. If you’ve tried to copy and paste, tab between fields, print directions, etc. from there, you know what I mean. That’s why I went ahead and made a taskbar shortcut for directions. When pressed, the button opens a browser window and passes the start and end-points to Google maps and their great tool does the rest.

To do this yourself, simply right-click on the taskbar (that Outlook-ish toolbar on the left side of the GoldMine window in GoldMine 5.7 and higher) and select Add New Item… When the window comes up, fill it in like this:

Note that the spacing on the URL Data line is very important so you might want to just copy and paste this for that part:

?q=<<&licinfo_address1>> <<&licinfo_zip>> to <<&address1>> <<&zip>>