Matt Casters on Data Integration

Dear Kettle friends,

It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be able to announce version 3.1.0 of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) on behalf of the complete development team and indeed our entire community.
Many things have changed, take a look at the What’s new in 3.1. overview

Here are the packages for your downloading and usage pleasure:

• Binary zip file (60 MB)
• Wiki documentation export (105 MB)
• Source zip file (72 MB)
• Javadoc zip file (7 MB)
• OSX dmg image (52 MB)
• Windows Installer : under construction

As you can see from the download list, we have ported our documentation over to the Pentaho Wiki. This will help us to keep the documentation set up to date and also will make it easier to interact with our community (you!) more easily.
The micro-detailed change-logs are here in JIRA:

• RC1 - GA : 130 cases
• M2 - RC1 : 100 cases
• M1 - M2 : 94 cases
• 3.0 - M1 : 238 cases

In short : an impressive 562 bugs, improvements and feature requests got resolved or implemented.

As a reminder, you still need version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment.

We hope you will find Pentaho Data Integration useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

Until next time,

Matt

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Roland Bouman and I will be doing a presentation together at T-Dose on October 25th:

Building Open Source BI solutions with Pentaho and MySQL

It’s a free conference, feel free to join us there for a chat and/or a drink!

Until then,
Matt

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There has to be a first time for everything and for me this is the first blog post on the high speed train back home from Paris to Brussels.  OK, so the ping times to ibridge.be range from 180-800ms, but so far everything seems to work absolutely great.

All in all, I’m quite happy with the setup. Took a picture with my phone, sent it to the laptop using Bluetooth, then over WIFI to my website.  All traveling at +300kph (200mph) with the laptop plugged in.

The downside obviously is that you can work on the train this way

Until next time,
Matt

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I guess it’s a new type of chain-blogging like we used to have chain-mails.
Just passing along the instructions for other bloggers….

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

It’s kinda fun.

Until the next time,
Matt

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For those people starting with Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration) we created a Getting Started page on our Wiki.

Since I realized that for some people, simple and easy can never be simple and easy enough I created 8 mini-flash demos :

• Create a new transformation - create a step (flash demo, 0′20″)
• Create a hop between 2 steps (flash demo, 0′20″)
• Create a database connection (flash demo, 0′45″)
• Read a CSV file (flash demo, 1 minute 0′20″)
• Write to a database table (flash demo, 1′00″)
• Name and describe a transformation (flash demo, 0′40″)
• Execute a transformation (flash demo, 1′20″)
• Debug a transformation (flash demo, 1′00″)

The idea is that you get an idea of how things work in under 10 minutes.

Let me know what all y’all think.  If there are videos/flash demos you like to share, please please feel free to let me know!

Until next time,
Matt

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