Summary: Watch Hadoop and SQL Server in action! Here are a few quick thoughts: Hadoop is a real solution for ‘Big Data’ Cloudera is making Hadoop accessible for solution developers Microsoft’s Hadoop connector SQL Server works with minimal effort Having Hadoop and SQL Server connected offers some great prospects. For me its being able to develop solutions [...] Read more – ‘Live Action: Apache Hadoop and SQL Server Connector’.
SpeedTracePro has saved me tremendous time. When I’m trying to debug 3rd party code and my own modules there is no substitute. Specifically, this tool has helped me develop solutions which required using entirely undocumented and unsupported libraries. The application when started, attaches to a running program (IIS) and does a full record of the [...] Read more – ‘SpeedTracePro: Debugging an ASP.Net stack trace’.
If you’re a developer building multi-dimenional databases you’ll need a good date/time dimension. Here is one I like to use when developing and had great user experiences with accountants and auditors. via SqlServerCentral.com SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO SET ANSI_NULLS OFF GO ALTER FUNCTION fn_TimeDimension(@StartDate datetime, @EndDate datetime) RETURNS @TimeDimension TABLE ( [TimeKey] integer NOT NULL, [...] Read more – ‘Date and Time for Multi-Dimensional Analysis’.
After a quick little test, Kendo UI did pretty well within an Appcelerator Titanium Mobile app. Following is a small screenshot of a Motorola Xoom, a TiApp hosing a single web view, and the sample KendoUI DataViz packages running. Read more – ‘KendoUI and Appcelerator Titanium Mobile’.
Just wanted to share a small video from my friends at Agilutions. They’re a wonderful IT consulting firm based in Denver with extensible NetForum Enterprise expertise (which I do too) and a brilliant team. Note: There is some serious ABBA coming your way Read more – ‘Agilutions – A day in the life …’.
If you hit this page you are probably Google searching, deploying a SQL Server Data Tier Application (DACPAC), and get the following messages: The stream cannot be read to construct the DacType. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dac) Unexpected XML content. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DacSerialization) You should check your version numbers. When developing on SQL Server 10.50.2500 (Developer Edition) and Visual Studio 2010 [...] Read more – ‘DacType Unexpected XML Content’.
If you’re getting spam or messages you commonly don’t want consider using ‘header_checks’ functionality of postfix. There are more complex and robust message management solutions, but this one is simple and effective. In your ‘/etc/postfix/main.cf’ file you’ll want to have the setting. Basically, it will regex the headers and perform a REJECT if a match [...] Read more – ‘Postfix and Header_Checks’.
If you get the folowing error when doing some Android development, turn off your antivirus software. In my case NOD32 was doing some active scanning and turning it off let the build continue. [ERROR] self.conn.execute('insert into timestamps(path, modified) values (?, ?)', (path, timestamp)) [ERROR] OperationalError: unable to open database file Read more – ‘Unable to Open Database File’.
If you are having problems installing to your Android device via USB cable on Windows (7) here are a few things to check. Click any of the images to enlarge. 1) Run the ‘adb.exe devices’ command and see that you do (or do not) have a recognized device. In the next image, the first command [...] Read more – ‘Android will not install to device’.
If you are doing some service level development and debugging don’t forget about fiddler. You can easily build request and see the raw input, output, and apply a variety of inspectors. Here is building the request. Here is reading the response (which is just displaying the request). Read more – ‘Client Debugging with Fiddler’.
Gizomo just posted my summer jam of 2011; takes me back to growing up on some 80s electro-funk. Watch this video on YouTube Read more – ‘Chromeo – Night By Night’.
A quick photo of the new home office paint, new monitor, and computer setup. Off to the right is the black mini-fridge with a printer/scanner/fax machine on its top and a flat screen TV to the left mostly on MSNBC (because of decent financials coverage). Read more – ‘Home Office’.
This is just a quick first post after getting the site setup. More content will be added over time. If you have questions regarding professional services please let me know. Read more – ‘Hello new site!’.
