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Spending time on Excel-SQLite, C, VBA Callbacks & Twitter

Posted in BI, ETL, Palo, SQLite, VBA, Web2.0, excel, xLite, tagged , on November 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Haven’t posted here in a while as my spare time has been soaked up programing, well actually refactoring would be more exact.  My xLite “SQLite empowered Excel” codebase has grown over the years and required a serious makeover to get rid of stuff I no longer use and to generally make it more robust.  I [...]

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Windows on EC2 = SMEs on EC2

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The announcement that Win2003 is now an an option on EC2, is very significant, that and EC2’s exit from beta status with an SLA in tow, means that AWS is now very much more appealing to the great unwashed, the SMEs. i.e. the businesses who form the backbone of most of our economies.
Large companies and [...]

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Clouds no longer pass by Windows.

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, data, news, tagged , , , on October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Amazon today announced that later this year, Windows Server woud be available on EC2. No details on cost and licensing etc. but this is major.  Up until now, that portion of the business world who are pure MS shops (a very large percentage especially amongst SMEs) were excluded from taking advantage of Amazon’s amazing (and [...]

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Twitter - the penny drops!

Posted in BI, Web2.0, data, tagged , , , , , on September 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’m a fan of most things Web2.0, not just for personal use but as business tools.  Over the last four years or so I’ve enthusiastically embraced Wikis, IM (Google Talk), RSS Readers et al. I could see the benefit and attraction of social network sites such as Facebook even if I’ve not partaken as such. [...]

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Cloudy skies, cloudy apps…

Posted in BI, ETL, Ireland, Palo, Web2.0, cloud, data, excel, news, olap, tagged , , , on August 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Just back from a break in Clifden, Connemara, summer is nearly over, the kids return to school today, back to work.
Counties Galway and Mayo were like the rest of the country last week, a tad wet, but unlike the developed east of the island, flooding was not a problem; a problematic drainage area is called [...]

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Amazon’s SAN in the cloud is a mirage…

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, news, tagged , , on August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This morning I got very excited.  While quickly scanning the headlines of the 1000+ unread feeds that had accumulated in my Google Reader this week, one heading in particular caught my attention, “Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live!“.
The post from the Right Scale folks gives a detailed overview of the new  Amazon ‘SAN storage in [...]

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Python the new VBA ?

Posted in BI, ETL, Palo, Ruby, SQLite, Web2.0, data, excel, news, tagged , , , , on April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »

These last two weeks, Python has been on my mind. First off, last week I decided to make time to fully investigate Picalo, an open-source Python-based data analysis tool, and then, this week, Google announced their long awaited cloud-computing offering, Google Apps Engine, with the language at its core.
Python was the first of [...]

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A Tale of Two Services.

Posted in Web2.0, data, excel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Friday, last week, 15th Feb, two of the services I most depend on, failed. Now as it turned out, neither really concerned me at the time, as that same day my brother was taken seriously ill (he’s now doing fine and on the way to recovery). It’s only now I’ve had the time [...]

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Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain!

Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, Web2.0, tagged , , , on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Over the weekend I dusted down my JotSpot Wiki, cleaned out some old Wiki pages and generally made it useful as a client collaboration tool. I created some new pages and few “project diary” type blog entries to do with a proposal for work. I also set up a potential client as a [...]

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SimpleDB + S3 = distributed document-centric database

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Web2.0, data, excel, news, tagged , on December 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I’m a database man. I’ve worked on or about most variations on the theme, from roll-your-own flat files, to hierarchical, to CODASYL network databases, to the current crop of relational and MOLAP platforms. Of late, I’ve being investigating what I think will be the future of database technology, the distributed document-centric database. [...]

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Zimki - the spirt lives on …

Posted in JavaScript, Ruby, Web2.0, news, programming, tagged , , , , , , on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Although Zimki is to shut down on Christmas Eve, the ideas behind the service live on. Two new offerings, Horuku and AppJet, offer variations on the idea of hosted application development/deployment.
AppJet, funded by Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator, is very similar to Zimki, being a server-side JavaScript platform. No details yet as to what [...]

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Firefox tune up time again …..

Posted in EC2, Firefox, S3, SQLite, Web2.0, tagged , , , , , on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »

This morning Firefox just got slower and slower; clicking on a link or a text box took ages to respond; using online WYSIWYG editors became next to impossible; I was also getting an error when attempting to connect to Google Sync.
I checked the usual suspects; internet connection OK; did a quick HijackThis scan and analysis [...]

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Ruby plus Amazon S3 - Document Centric Database

Posted in EC2, ETL, Ruby, S3, Web2.0, data, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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CrashPlan - the best backup service yet?

Posted in S3, Web2.0, data, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Take Mind Mapping offline with Google Gears

Posted in GoogleApps, SQLite, Web2.0, education, tagged , 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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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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Google Spreadsheets - ETL tool

Posted in BI, ETL, GoogleApps, RSSBus, Ruby, SQLite, Talend, VBA, Web2.0, excel, kettle, tagged on September 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Although I’m a total Excel fanboy, I most admit I rarely use it any longer for personal stuff such as home budgets, tax calculations, what-ifs, to-do lists etc.; I now tend to use Google Spreadsheets. Likewise, personal notes, drafts and useful bits of code are stored using Google Docs rather than MS Word. [...]

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Moved to blog.gobansaor.com

Posted in BI, ETL, Web2.0, data, excel, tagged , on September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Over the weekend I transferred this blog over to my own sub-domain, http://blog.gobansaor.com. The blog continues to be hosted by WordPress.com and the old http://gobansaor.wordpress.com addresses will continue to work. Most RSS readers will also gracefully (I hope) handle the transfer of the RSS feed, but if not, you may wish to [...]

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What use is a blog to a small business?

Posted in Ireland, Web2.0, tagged , on August 10, 2007 | No Comments »

In future when Frank Fullard is asked that question (and the associated “What would I blog about?”) he’s going to point to the Ice Cream Ireland site. I’ve been in their shop in Dingle (if you like ice cream you’ll love it) but I was unaware they also had an outlet in Killarney, now [...]

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Web Offline - all data lost!

Posted in Web2.0, data, tagged on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »

…just a warning, get a life and get a data-backup strategy

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