#AL
All posts tagged AL.
Camera-first warehouse execution: betting against barcode scanners
Every WMS deployment we ever lost died on the scanner hardware project. So we built a WMS that runs on the phone every operator already has. What it takes to make camera-first actually work at warehouse scale — and where dedicated scanners still earn their keep.
Above the Cues: why we built a Role Center charting dashboard instead of pushing Power BI
When Power BI is the wrong default. The decisions behind SourceForge Insight — zero outbound calls, embedded chart libraries, permission-true reads, Page Background Tasks for compute. And why making the security review trivial is the actual product story.
Idempotent POS posting in Business Central: how we made retry safe by construction
How the Posted Sale Map pattern lets retail POS retry posts as many times as the network forces — without ever creating a duplicate sale. The architectural decision that shaped SourceForge Retail for Business Central.
One Business Central payroll engine, five countries: why we made country packs data, not code
How we built one Business Central payroll engine for India, UAE, KSA, Netherlands and USA — without forking the codebase per country. The architecture trade-offs of treating countries as configuration data rather than code paths.
Building an AI Assistant for Business Central: 61 tools, hardcoded write whitelists, and Preview-and-Confirm
The engineering choices behind a Claude-powered conversational interface that lives inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — and why the simplest decision was the most important.