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Backup, backup, backup

Perhaps every system administrator/DBA talks about this issue...and this recommendation is based on the common sense: Make valid backups of your data.We made backups at all level: operating system,...

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Squash Tournament

I just entered to the squash tournament of the company I work for. Its a very big tournament with 6 extreme players (3 from TI, 3 from Network) :-). We will use English scoring and double yellow dot...

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Holidays!

Is official tomorrow my holidays vacations begin!...I will take 14 work days which are like 3 weeks in calendar days...The last year and the current has been very heavy in work load terms...The...

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Back from holidays

Hey!Today is my first job day after the holidays and I have to say: I'm out of form.Anyway...holidays were great, as I told in the last post I went to Valledupar and to Santa Marta. There I take a very...

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A good new one

I think this post will be quite large...sorry if You get bored with it......The good one: I will change my job. I resigned yesterday to my current job as an information system analyst in a telco...

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Office, visio, project

Seems like when you are in a non technical position you must use these Microsoft tools very often....which is sad because I don't want lose my Linux desktop as the main os I use in the work...So in...

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Infobright goes open source!

Long time without write in this blog...have been too too busy in my new job.Anyway since yesterday I'm glad to see that infobright, a data warehousing storage engine for mysql has been released as open...

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Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers

So, it seems I can't get used to write in my blog often. Lately I've been working with monitoring tools (cacti, nagios, snmptt, etc), so I have left BI and pentaho a little bit aside.A couple of weeks...

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A status update

So, I totally forgot my blog until the people from Packt Publishing asked me for the reviewing of Pentaho Reporting book. Now I want to speak about what I have been doing this year.While I continued...

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Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers - Review

So, I've finally finished the book Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers. Thanks to Richard Dias from Packet Publishing for the opportunitty and apologies for writing this so late.So, as I told in...

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Coming from vacations

I just came back from a 3 weeks vacations which I enjoyed so much because I havent taken a rest since a year and a half. As is usual I went to Valledupar, nice Caribbean city of Colombia, and stayed...

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User Defined Java Class (UDJC) step

Hey!, I saw the flash recording demo of the new plugin developed by Daniel Einspanjer, User Defined Java Class UDJC and the performance improvement of the Kettle PDI Transformations are awesome. Now...

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Back to Pentaho again

So, this year I have been spending most of my time digging in Network Management Systems both open and closed source. Think on Net-SNMP, SNMPTT, NAGIOS, CENTREON and you will get an idea. I promise...

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Aberrant Behavior Detection

As I wrote before, most of the time of this year I worked in Network Management Systems. Managing a huge, constantly growing, network is a heavy task. One part of this task is measurement collection,...

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Latest CDF - script.js minified

Hi,Just a quick post about the latest CDE-CDF etc that the guys of webdetails have been developing. As In the previous version, distributed in Pentaho platform, I had to tweak a little the javascript...

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Render a Prpt report correctly in a Pentaho's BI Platform xaction

Hi, a quick hint about writing a Xaction who must render a Prpr Report. If you try to use the xaction writing plugin for Eclipse, the xaction probably wont work. Here is the correct xaction, and you...

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Messing with Roo

In the last Google I/O was anounced that GWT 2 will have support in Spring Roo. I never heard of Roo before and I wanted to take look (http://www.springsource.org/roo).It seems that Roo improves the...

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pentaho CDE CDF CDA CD* tutorials

Quick post to help people trying to make stuff on those great tools developed by webdetails.pt . They are great but have a lack of docs, so this two links would...

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Your faithful employee

Hello,In the area I work for, we have one duty among several others more: Maximize the availability of the network management systems. The NMSs must run almost every time because the NOCs (network...

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Tutorial CDE

Inteligencia de Negocio y Pentaho: Cómo hacer cuadros de mando: V: Un tutorial recomendado para manejar las excelentes herramientas que Pedro Alves y Webdetails han desarrollado, en especial CDE.

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Software Engineering for Software as a Service

Hi,I had the experience to take the Software Engineering for Software as a Service course offered by professor Armando Fox and David Patterson from University of Berkeley through the coursera...

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Software Engineering for Software as a Service - Statement

If you want to have an idea of how is the statement here is a picture of it:

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Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

Despite I'm currently not an active community user of Pentaho, mainly because right now I'm focused on network and it managament, I still follow the evolution of this great platform. In the last years...

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Quick update

Hey, a quick update,I decided to resign my job in Colombia and go to study overseas. I am currently studying a Master of Information Technology - Distributed Systems in The University of Melbourne,...

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Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook

Hi,I had the opportunity to review the book Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook published by Packtpub. I have been delayed with this review because most of the time was consumed by the master I have...

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