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!
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.
A lot of people have been trying to download a copy of Windows Home Server 2008 but (like myself) could only find the 120 day trial available by ordering the CD to be delivered via snail mail. So here is how you can download an evaluation copy and avoid the wait!
After installing Vista I had some issues with my HTPC (Home Theater PC); whenever the HTPC ‘awoke’ from being ‘asleep’ (sleep mode) it was locked, even when I had supplied no password for my user! So here is a quick tutorial on how you can disable this option in Vista.
After playing around with Excel and PowerPoint 2007, I was very impressed at the way you can format your objects to look very Web 2.0ish, but as I use 2003 at work a lot I wanted to see if I could replicate this.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to change your objects in an Excel 2003 worksheet or PowerPoint 2003 presentation into Web 2.0 style objects.
Here is a quick guide to setting up the uTorrent and WebUI client on a Ubuntu Hardy box.
Ever wanted to get a query or table which you have in Access exported into a table in an Oracle database? Read on!
Related : Connecting an Excel Pivot Table with an Oracle database
I thought I would OpenOffice through another test and see how easy it is to build a DataPilot on a MySQL database.
Related : MySQL ODBC driver Tutorial
Related : Using an OpenOffice Calc DataPilot with a Base Database
This tutorial will look at building an interactive (drag and drop, filter etc.) Pivot Chart into your PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft Office Web Components.
Related : Building a Pivot Table into your PowerPoint presentation
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