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Export your timesheets to other systems: accounting, payroll, project management

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Here are the main features of today’s release:

  • Using your own ID’s to export data to other systems:
    When exporting your time data to another system like accounting or payroll you can define your own IDs
  • Set a maximum of hours for a day:
    You can limit the number of yours the users will be able to record for a day.
  • Improving and fixing the mobile version of the app:
    Performances were improved, and some navigation bugs were fixed.

Read more details about this release.

Now back to work with the daily timesheet and data imports!

Keep your projects on track and budget with BeeBole

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Today we upgraded the functionality that let you keep your budgets under control.

The budget reflects in real time, what your team is recording through their timesheets.

You can now:

  1. Set a budget for your projects. It can be either in hours or amounts.
    Use the module: Budget for that.
  2. And monitor the budgets progress using the module: Budget Status.

You can read more information about the budget functionality in the April 4th, 2011 release note

With this upgrade, you can now track budgets at the level of sub projects too.

Here is an example and some comments over the image below:

  • The project Another customer – Another project: has an over budget of $3,000
  • BeeBole – internal: is ok, and has $4,500 left or 27,27%
  • customer – project: looks to be ok and ending (152h over 160h) but in fact, the subproject 3 is already 34 hours out of budget

Timesheet Budget Status

Feel free to contact our support team for any question or feedback.

Lessons learned in Silicon Valley

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  • Be open about your ideas/startup. Just pitch them constantly. The feedback is amazing, especially in the Tech Mecca.
  • Be bold when it comes to meet Valley superstars. They are much more open than what we think, here, in Europe.
  • Be ready for a culture shock when you land in the middle of Bay to Breakers after a 11 hours flight.

A few highlights for BeeBole

On Tuesday, we had a 5 min pitch/demo on the stage of SF Newtech.

A big thank you to Myles from SF Newtech who gave us this opportunity. And a big thank you to Rudy Demotte, Chief Minister of Wallonia (the Belgian region where BeeBole is located) for his presence and support.

On Wednesday and Thursday we lost our voices in the Developer Sandbox at the Google IO.
It was an amazing experience and the feedback we received was really good. It also created great opportunities we are now digging into. Thank you to all the Google fans, developers and partners who passed by. I have shared a few picture of our booth.

Last but not least, the Webmission San Francisco 2010.
Thank you to Jenny for making this a huge success. Thank you to the webmissioners for bringing so much energy. It was, really, an incredible team.

San Francisco, Google IO… See you next year !

Our team is in San Francisco

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We landed this week-end in San Francisco, for a full week of work and fun.

First, we will be presenting BeeBole on the 18th at the SF Newtech “The Belgian’s are back”
with a few other Belgians startups.

Free Tacos at the after party!

On the 19th and the 20th, we will be demoing our application in the Developer Sandbox
at the Google IO.

If you have the chance to have a ticket, just come by our booth! We will show the last goodies.

The rest of the week is full of visits, meetups and talks with our Belgian Webmission.

BeeBole invited to Google I/O Developer Sandbox

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Google IO

We are very honored to announce that we are invited by Google to present BeeBole at the Developer Sandbox during the Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco.

Google I/O is Google’s largest developer event of the year and will occur on the 19th and 20th of May.

It is an amazing opportunity for a Belgian startup to participate to the Developer Sandbox amongst other companies such as LinkedIn, eBay, … but also to meet and learn from top developers.

In the coming weeks we’ll provide more details about how we use Google technologies like Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Chart Tools, … in our web app.

Meanwhile, you can already watch this video teaser and subscribe to the beta.

BeeBole Goes To Sevilla

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We took a multi-lingual approach for our web app from the very first day we started developing and even if our beta is not public yet, our private beta testers can already play in four languages: English, French, Dutch and Spanish.

In a few weeks, we will have a unique opportunity to meet the Spanish web scene.

BeeBole in Spanish Thumbnail

On the 13th, 14th and 15th of November, the biggest Spanish web event, Evento Blog, will occur in Sevilla.

Thanks to the continuous effort of Ramón Suárez, a Spanish expatriate well known in the little web arena of Brussels, a Belgian web mission will take place.

This will give the chance to a few Belgian start-ups to discover the Spanish market a little bit deeper and meet its main actors (medias, VCs, …).

Robin Wauters, writer for the famous blog Techcrunch, is joining the mission and will also be a keynote speaker.

If you are a Belgian start-up interested in the Spanish market, I can only invite you to join this wonderful opportunity. All the information is available here and there are still a few seats left: http://wiki.webmission.be/ebe09

For the others, I hope to see you there!

And thanks again Ramón.

Convert HTML to PDF

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As a background task for our web application BeeBole, I was looking for an easy and efficient way to produce PDF documents without being stuck with postscript like syntax or being feature limited in a design point of view.

Last week I discovered the tool I was looking for : WKHTMLTOPDF

By leveraging the power of the webkit engine through QtWebKit module, this thing is converting HTML with full CSS support to PDF the same way you “Save as PDF” from your browser ;)

In this article, I’ll show you the very first prototype I did of a possible WKHTMLTOPDF integration with our application.
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Extreme Makeover

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During the week-end, our blog has been through an extreme makeover.

  1. The design has changed. If you can’t see those changes or if the design looks weird, just hit the refresh button of your web browser.
  2. The re-design includes a lot of new features, mainly in the side bar: direct access to the recent posts, pictures, videos, … and at the end of each post you will find a list of all the related posts.
  3. The URL has also changed. Instead of http://beebole.com/blog/, it is now http://beebole.com/en/blog/. The old URL being redirected to here, it shouldn’t be an issue for the old links you might have in your favorites.

Don’t hesitate to give us any feedback about the new design/features or to report bugs via the comments hereunder.

BeeBole Interviewed by Globe Corp/Entreprise Globale

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Two weeks ago, I was back in Brussels and, with Mic, we’ve had the chance to meet Jean-Yves Huwart for an interview.

Jean-Yves is the economic journalist behind the blog and think tank Entreprise Globale or Globe Corp in its English version.

He tries, through his articles and interviews, to define how deeply globalization is changing the culture inside companies, from large corporations to start-ups like us.
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