By Brian Swanson on 10/22/2008 8:09 AM

Snowmint Creative Solutions has released version 1.1.4 of their expense tracking software Budget Workbook.

This release fixes a minor bug found in the previous version that kept the preferences file from being saved.

Purple Ant is responsible for creating the Windows versions of several of Snowmint Creative Solution's products.

By Brian Swanson on 10/22/2008 8:02 AM

Snowmint Creative Solutions has released version 1.0.4 of their financial planning software Budget Planner.

Purple Ant is responsible for creating the Windows versions of several of Snowmint Creative Solution's products.

By Brian Swanson on 10/6/2008 11:22 PM

Snowmint Creative Solutions has released version 1.1.3 of their Expense tracking software Budget Workbook.

Purple Ant is responsible for creating the Windows versions of several of Snowmint Creative Solution's products.

By Brian Swanson on 8/9/2008 6:51 PM

I am not sure at what point this happened, or if I even had a choice in the matter (maybe Joel is sending telepathic messages to me). Purple Ant is a monthly subscriber to Copilot.com, and we have a few licenses to FogBugz.  I'm both an email subscriber, and RSS subscriber to JoelOnSoftware.com.  I own a copy of Joel On Software the book, as well as More Joel on Software, and User Interface Design for Programmers, and Smart and Getting Things Done.  I've been listening to the StackOverflow.com podcasts (two seperate links there) since they started...Oh and Purple Ant wrote a DotNetNuke (DNN) module to support the "co-branding" of Copilot.com, and are giving it away for free to anyone who wants to use it.

I'm sure there are other things (we won't go into the shrine I have...j/k), but I can't think of them at the moment...

Why am I such an avid follower of Joel?  I agree with most of what he says...  Fog Creek Software was founded as a place where developers would...

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By Brian Swanson on 7/10/2008 3:56 PM

Purple Ant Software is pleased to announce our first commercial software package, TotalRM.  TotalRM is a Relationship Management tool that will provide advanced customization and configuration options giving the user complete control over how the relationships in their business, both internal and external, should be managed.  TotalRM is way beyond a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, it is an evolution in managing relationships that exist in each business.



The first version of TotalRM that will be released is the "Express Edition" which will limit the customization capabilities, as well as be restricted to a single user with an Access database to store information.  We feel it is important to get TotalRM out there to start receiving feedback on the User Interface and other design decisions that have been made, instead of waiting until the more advanced functionality...

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By Brian Swanson on 7/8/2008 6:32 AM

At Purple Ant, we are happily using Fog Creek's Copilot.com service for remote support of our desktop customers, and training whenever possible.

Recently (ok, not so recently), Copilot announced the ability to create your own customer launch page, to better integrate Copilot into your customer service process.

Purple Ant has created a simple module for DotNetNuke (available to all registered user's for free), to allow you to direct your customers to a page on your DNN site to start their Copilot session.

As you can see by the link, we are building out our new DotNetNuke site, but the skin has not yet been applied.  Go ahead and register for the site, and check back often, as our new skin should be up and going within a few weeks.