Posted under News
With all the recent media coverage of Prince Willam visiting Australia it got me thinking more on what steps do we need to take as a nation to becoming a republic and why?
The Australian Republic Movement sums it up pretty well:
An Australian republic will embrace our egalitarianism and the concept of a fair go. It will honour and acknowledge our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and cherish its culture, with its timeless connection to the Australian land and sea. It will recognise our British heritage and acknowledge its gifts, including our political and legal institutions. An Australian republic will celebrate our immigrant heritage of opportunity and endeavour and its contribution to our national identity. It will unite all Australians behind an Australian Head of State.
You can help the Australian Republic Movement by Joining, Donating, Volunteering or Attending meetings.
We might even get another holiday out if it.
Posted by
Prashant Raju on Jan 22, 2010 —
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Posted under BI Server, Open Source, Pentaho, Report Designer, Tutorials
For those starting out with Pentaho it can be confusing on how to publish content (reports, ETL jobs etc.) to Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) server. I have put together a guide which outlines the steps you will need to enable publishing and also an example of how you can use Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) to publish reports.
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Prashant Raju on Jan 20, 2010 —
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Posted under MySQL
Interested in a free front end tool to use with MySQL – why not test Quest’s Toad for MySQL:
Quest Software’s Toad for MySQL leverages Quest Software’s database expertise to empower MySQL developers and administrators, of varying skill levels, to rapidly create and execute queries, automate database object management and develop SQL code more efficiently.
Toad for MySQL provides utilities to compare, extract and search for objects, manage projects, import/export data and administer the database, while increasing your productivity and delivering access to an active user community.
It is packed with features and benefits but unfortunately can only run on Windows work PCs only. I have been using it pretty heavily for the past month and it hasn’t let me down once!
Enjoy.
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Prashant Raju on Jan 20, 2010 —
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Posted under BI Server, Open Source, Pentaho, Report Designer
I was about to do a chapter by chapter review of Roland Bouman and Jos van Dangen‘s masterpiece “Pentaho Solutions – Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL” but since I started reading it I haven’t been able to put it down. It is definitely a must for anyone who is interested or currently working with Pentaho.
Because this book just oozes with awesomeness I have been able to shorten my review to three words “buy it now“.
Enjoy.
Posted by
Prashant Raju on Jan 17, 2010 —
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Posted under Open Source, Pentaho, Report Designer, Tutorials
After the new release of Pentaho’s Report Designer 3.5 (PRD) I thought I would get stuck into trying out some of the new charting features, of which Survey Scales (and of course Sparklines) interested me the most. Survey Scales are a way of graphically representing values on a predefined scale i.e. survey responses.
Below is a tutorial which I have put together on how to implement Survey Scales within a report using Pentaho’s Report Designer 3.5.
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Prashant Raju on Jan 14, 2010 —
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Posted under Wordpress
For those who are interested I have put up a Google Code project for the WordPress theme I created for this blog. The theme is called “Strathmore” and is based on the Blueprint CSS Framework.
Check out the WordPress project page to get more info on the theme and instructions on how to set it up.
Enjoy.
Posted by
Prashant Raju on Jan 11, 2010 —
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One of my New Year Resolutions was to get back into blogging consistently throughout 2010. This year I’m going to concentrate on tutorials and general ramblings with topics which interest me most:
- Data Analytics, Visualisation and Mining
- Web Based Server and Client Side Scripting
- Business Intelligence
How can you help? Start by subscribing to my feed and following me on !
Peace.
Posted by
Prashant Raju on Jan 4, 2010 —
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