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Archive for November, 2007
Geek Christmas Present Idea!
Posted in lol, security, tagged Christmas, fun, geek on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
New ETL platform for PALO OLAP
Posted in BI, ETL, Palo, Talend, kettle, olap, tagged Jedox, Drill-down, drill-back, Mondrian on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Jedox have announced that they intend to ship a Palo centric ETL open source server product early next year. This is excellent news and is on top of the new rules engine that was added to Palo this summer. Open source MOLAP has suddenly taken off the training wheels and is getting ready [...]
DATA + HMRC = GUBU ?
Posted in ETL, data, tagged Darling, HMRC, UK, data loss on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I was tempted to use the 1980’s era Irish political acronym GUBU (Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented ) to describe the announcement by Chancellor Darling yesterday of the loss of 25 million UK citizens’ data records. Grotesque yes; bizarre - putting 25 million private records on two un-encrypted CD/DVD disks and sending it to London, [...]
Ruby plus Amazon S3 - Document Centric Database
Posted in EC2, ETL, Ruby, S3, Web2.0, data, tagged CouchDb, map reduce, EU, RDDB on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve said it before and I’m going to repeat myself; learning Ruby has proven to be a great investment, not so much for the language itself but for the insights it gives into other technologies. As soon as a new ‘cool’ technology or idea hits the street some smart Rubyist is bound to attack [...]
CrashPlan - the best backup service yet?
Posted in S3, Web2.0, data, tagged backup, CrashPlan, Mozy on November 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You know when you come across something so simple, so obvious and so brilliant you wonder, why didn’t I think of that? Well for personal/small business data backup I’ve just had one of those moments.
CrashPlan is a consumer/SMB orientated backup service following in the footsteps of Mozy (a service I’ve used in the past [...]
Take Mind Mapping offline with Google Gears
Posted in GoogleApps, SQLite, Web2.0, education, tagged google gears, mind maps on November 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been a long time fan of mind maps (the pencil and paper type) and have also occasionally used the excellent and free computer based FreeMind to good effect. Over the last year or so a number of online mind mapping tools have appeared and I see that one of the better ones, www.mindmeister.com, [...]
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