Familiar with Sugar/Ramping-up on Yahoo!

For Sugar developers who are already familiar with the Sugar platform and have already been developing modules and customizing other areas of the application you will want to ramp up on the YUI Javascript library as well as the Yahoo! API's and Sites.

The Yahoo! Developer Network has put together great resources for developers with documentation and examples. Below are some links to help get you up to speed:

YUI Homepage

Yahoo! Developer Network Homepage: here you will find various links and resources to all of the Yahoo! API's and Sites including:

Notable YUI Components:

Drag Drop: Utilized in Sugar for functionality with Dashlets on the homepage, reordering subpanels, and editing layouts in the admin Studio

Connection Manager: The connection manager is used to handle AJAX calls/connections

Animation Utility: The animation utility is leveraged to help effects such as the swipe in the global search functionality, editing dashlets, adding custom fields while editing layouts in the studio

API's: Answers, Search, Maps, Photos, etc

Sites: Del.icio.us, Flickr, Upcoming.org, etc

Yahoo! Developers ramping up on Sugar

For Yahoo! developers who have already been utilizing the YUI Javascript libraries and API's you will want to get ramped up on the Sugar Platform and module framework.

The Sugar Online team has put together various resources for developers and users:

Download Sugar Open Source

Getting Started For Developers: Here is a good place to start for developers new to SugarCRM. You will get walked through at a high level of how things are organized and what the important components are. If you should like to read things in print form the same content is provided in a Word document., link is located below.



SugarWiki Homepage: Here we have a Developer and Support Wiki to help developers and community members learn more about developing in sugar and managing their sugar instance.

Sugar Forums: Sugar Forums is a place for developers to post questions or issues they are trying to troubleshoot as well as search for answers.

Sugar Univeristy: Sugar University is setup to help the end user learn more about the application how to best to utilize the functionality that comes with it. If you are interested in learning more about Sugar from an end user perspective this is the place to start.