Recently I been playing around with alot of Ext JS. It’s a great Ajax Framework, which makes building a full Ajax application easy as pie. All you really need to worry about is how to transfer Json between your Rails application and Ext JS.
Here’s a tutorial on how to get Ext JS’s TreePanel going with Ruby on Rails.
Pentaho is an amazing open source tool for Business Intelligence and the other day I succesfully got it working with some help from the guys over at ##pentaho @ irc.freenode.net. So here is a tutorial on how to get Pentaho 1.7 running on a Ubuntu Hardy webserver or local box!
HOW TO INSTALL PENTAHO 2.0 ON MYSQL WiTH LINUX GUIDE IS HERE!
Resources which are handy when it comes to Pentaho:
Extra props to to bugg from ##pentaho!
Pivot Tables are a great tool for manipulating your data but when it comes to choosing which data source you want to manipulate the list is almost endless, especially with any flat text file, and yes, WITHOUT VBA! Here is a cheat sheet to get you started!
Recently I needed to change my WeBrick’s application root from /public to something else. If you need to have it running under a different directory, all of your routing to public stylesheets, images, etc. will have errors.
SQL Developer is a free tool from Oracle which is great for database querying and extraction and the best thing is that it doesn’t just support Oracle it also supports Access, MySQL and SQL Server. Another hidden feature for all the novice SQL programmers is the Query Builder (similar to Access and SQL Server), so I thought I would do a quick post to go over the features of Query Builder.
So I just picked up a new laptop, the Dell Studio 15″ which looks and performs great but as I’m in a brick walled apartment I had issues with streaming video over a wireless connection from my Linux file server. The symptoms were stuttering, hitching and skipping but with VLC I was able to fix this issue!
You would think after the announcement of a new Star Trek movie and talks of sequels Paramount would give StarTrek.com some resources to keep chuggin along? Well after Paramount decided it would dismiss the great web masters of StarTrek.com we have seen a once great source of information neglected and left to rot.
I thought it would be good to go over some resources for all the latest and past Trek news that I use and hopefully have you also remove StarTrek.com from your bookmarks.
After working in the ‘analyst’ field for a while now I have come accross a lot of tools which can be helpful to squeezing that extra piece of data out or creating a whiz bang report. Here is a list of free tools which should help you along the way!
Here’s how you can setup debugging with your Ruby environment using Netbeans 6.1. Netbeans 6.1 comes with a debugger installed, but only with JRuby, this is how to set it up to work with Ruby.
Coming from a SQL programming background you might find it difficult trying to adapt the AND / OR operators to your Excel formulas, so here is a method that I use to solve this problem.
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