http://www.ibridge.be Venting steam after a long day of writing code... Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:09:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello Kettle people! It's been a while since my last blog but I since there is always so much to tell you about Kettle, it's high time to pick up the pace again. This time I want to inform you that Kettle developer superstar Samatar informed me that he's working on JSON ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=186 Dear Kettle fans, A few weeks ago, when I was stuck in the US after the MySQL User Conference, a new book was published by Packt Publishing. That all by itself is something that is not too remarkable.  However, this time it's a book about my brainchild Kettle. That makes this book ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=185 As requested by a few fans out there, here are the slides of my presentation: Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 and MySQL.pdf I had a great time at the conference, met a lot of nice folks, friends, customers, partners and colleagues. After the conference I was unable to get back home like so ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=184 Dear Kettle and MySQL fans, Next week I'll be strolling around the MySQL user conference in Santa Clara.  Even better, I'll be presenting Tuesday afternoon (3:05pm).  The topic is Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 and MySQL. The presentation will show you what the world's most popular open source data integration tool can do ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=183 Dear Kettle fans, As you know, Kettle 4.0 received a new logging framework not so long ago.  It allows us to know exactly where a log-line comes from, even in complex ETL situations. So when codek asked to know the cause of errors in a job, it was quite easy to implement ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=181 Dear Kettle fans, Daniel & I had a lot of fun in Orlando last week. Among other things we worked on the User Defined Java Class (UDJC) step.  If you have a bit of Java Experience, this step allows you to quickly write your own plugin in a step. This step ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=180 Dear Kettle fans, Besides refactoring and cleaning up code, I fortunately can write some new code once in a while as well. Today, I'm happy to demo job drill down and step sniff testing for you. The first feature, Job drill down, allows you to drill down into a running job entry, into ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=179 Dear Pentaho friends, I just wanted to share some good news with you regarding a new study that got published today. Mark Madsen, an independent business intelligence analyst, together with the BeyeNETWORK took an in depth look at what is going in companies with respect to open source BI.** You can find the ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=178 Hi Pentaho fans, These are exciting times for Pentaho for sure.  These are also extremely busy times.  However, that doesn't mean we can't look around once in a while.  Today we'll take a quick look at a new book that arrived on my doorstep a few weeks ago.  It's titled Pentaho Reporting ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=177 Dear Linux fans, Last weekend I saw an ad for a netbook in a Carrefour superstore leaflet that I guess was just too good to refuse. Unlike other netbooks, this one was priced really low: €199,00 (including taxes which makes it cost my company €164.46 or about 200 $USD).  For me, that's ... http://www.ibridge.be/?p=176