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Archive for October, 2007

Trying out Vodafone’s 3G service.

Posted in Ireland, Rathmore, broadband, eadestown, tagged , , , on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For over a week this month our local OmniTel wireless broadband was out of action (the 3rd major interruption of service in the last year). As usual I had to revert back to my 64Kbps ISDN line which is not as bad as analogue dial-up but it’s still a shock to the system! [...]

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Amazon EC2: S, L and XL - now we’re sucking diesel..

Posted in BI, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, tagged , , on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »

As of today, Amazon EC2 now supports two new Instance Types..
… a “Large” and an “Extra Large” instance type to complement the original instance type and provide more flexibility for EC2 users. The new instance types provide more memory, CPU, and instance storage, and are based on 64bit technology. EC2 users can now [...]

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Using the latest Pure Java SQLite JDBC driver in Kettle

Posted in ETL, Java, SQLite, kettle, tagged , on October 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »

The bug in the pure Java SQLiteJDBC driver that caused an “out of memory” error when trying to connect to a SQLite database using standard windows drive letters (e.g. c:\kettle\mydata.db) is now fixed. The current version (V037) has also been updated to SQLite version 3.4.2. To use the latest driver within Kettle, download [...]

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JavaScript as an Excel scripting language via ExcelDNA

Posted in JavaScript, VBA, excel, tagged , , , , , , on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Developing .NET DLLs that are to be used within an Excel VBA add-in is relatively easy to do. But the overhead of the COM managed interfaces can be a serious performance bottleneck if the .NET managed functions are called from within a tight loop. The alternative is to create a C++ XLL and [...]

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