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xlAWS – 100,000 downloads?

Posted in AmazonAWS, Proto, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, VBA, programming, xLite, xlAWS, tagged , on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Not sure, but this morning I received my monthly AWS bill, and it was double its usual amount! When I investigated the extra cost it was due to 133GBs of downloads from my www2.gobansaor.com bucket. This is the S3 bucket in which I store the xlAWS zip file, xlAWS being a “library-of-sorts” of [...]

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Proto – desktop BI tool.

Posted in ETL, Proto, RSSBus, VBA, news, xLite on September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I see that Proto have repositioned their excellent VBA scripted mash-up product as a “desktop business intelligence system”. This is to be welcomed as the first time I used it I described it as a “mash-up tool for adults” and although it has the ability to play hard ball with the other Web2.0 mash-up [...]

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Apatar – a few extracts short of a load

Posted in BI, ETL, Proto, RSSBus, SQLite, Talend, data, excel, kettle, tagged on July 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to try out the Apatar ETL/Mashup tool for sometime and today being yet another rainy day in this the worst Irish summer that I can remember (and Irish summers are not renowned for the lack of rainfall) I decided to give it a try out. Not impressed I’m afraid; comes up [...]

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Google Gears – SQLite Killer App

Posted in ETL, JavaScript, Proto, SQLite, excel, kettle on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The announcement of Google Gears is of course a game changer for those working in the development of online apps; its addition to Goggle Reader alone would make it worth while for me and I’m sure we’ll see it integrated into Google Docs and GMail in the near future. If you had any plans [...]

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What’s up Docs & Spreadsheets?

Posted in ETL, GAFyD, Proto, excel, news, tagged , on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Google Spreadsheets now supports simple graphs and named ranges; see the announcement on the google-d-s.blogspot.com blog. I’ve also just noticed that my Google Apps account now includes Docs & Spreadsheets; finally I can move my business documents from my private GMail account into Goggle Apps. Looks like a presentation tool is also on [...]

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I hope their intentions are honorable…..

Posted in Proto, RSSBus on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve said before that these two would make an ideal couple, I see the courting flirting has begun …..
RSSBus
Proto

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Proto

Posted in ETL, Proto, SQLite, excel, xLite, tagged on April 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »

In the two months since I first came across Proto I’ve worked my way through most of the tutorials and sample applications and I’ve come away with a very positive impression of the product. I hadn’t however managed to the find the time to create a VBA based component; that is until last [...]

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Habemus Proto

Posted in ETL, Proto, SQLite, excel, xLite on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve just uploaded my first Proto module; a rewrite of a VBA module I’ve been using for many years to provide me with a bridge between the ease of use of desktop user-focused tools and the power of a SQL enabled database. In the past that database was Oracle (and occasionally MS Access) and [...]

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VBA & JavaScript – glue languages

Posted in JavaScript, Proto, excel, kettle, programming, tagged , on March 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

What have Javascript and VBA in common? Not much on the surface and their respective user bases rarely if ever overlap. What they do share are their roles as the imperative (the-if-then-else-loop-etc) programming languages of the “I’m not a programmer” programmers, the great unwashed, the “normal” people out there who [...]

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Mashup Match Making

Posted in Proto, RSSBus, excel, tagged on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been watching and trialing RSSBus since its initial public beta last May but had of late began to wonder had /N Software lost interest in the project.  But there appears to be light at the end of this particular beta tunnel with the announcement of the integration of the RSSBus engine into News Gataor’s NewsGator [...]

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Tables Vs. XML; the data lingua franca debate.

Posted in Proto, Web2.0, data, excel, programming, tagged on March 3, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Okay I’m exaggerating, there’s no debate, those using tables (mainly business-orientated techies/power-users) are blissfully unaware of the charms of XML; while those whose only answer to every data exchange problem is XML (or its Javascript cousin JSON) think tables are something people used to design HTML web sites before they discovered the delights of CSS [...]

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Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling…

Posted in ETL, Proto, Web2.0, programming, tagged on February 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »

What have these three fantastic products in common?

Proto, an application for building “desktop mashups”;
Kettle, a visual ETL design tool;
Yahoo Pipes;

… you guessed it, pipes. The classic idea of the unix pipe has been given a new life in these three easy-to-use products, but this time the target audience is not the sysadmins and professional [...]

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Web2.0, make way for BI2.0

Posted in BI, ETL, Proto, excel on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

An article in www.intelligententerprise.com states that BI1.0 is over, prepare for BI2.0. Who will win this BI2.0 battle, will it be MS Excel/Sharepoint, will the old-school BI vendors abandon their bloatware practices, will Open Source or Google grap the initiative or maybe something like Proto? Interesting times ahead, methinks.

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