tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79506302263412864172024-03-14T14:21:47.578+08:00Mallim XF 3 - Ramblings of a Journeyman Software EngineerRamblings of a Journeyman Software Engineer - covering ExtJS, JQuery, Struts, Spring Framework, Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle)mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-59394226766827112642012-07-23T18:10:00.004+08:002012-07-23T18:10:56.608+08:0011 BI Tools to Analyze Healthcare Operations11 BI Tools to Analyze Healthcare Operations<br />
http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/healthcare/admin-systems/240001004#<br />
<br />
<b>However, most of the tools here looks expensive...</b>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-78505945408148276972012-06-26T22:42:00.000+08:002012-06-26T22:10:34.893+08:00What are the useful resources which I refer while trying out AWS?<ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/mysql.html">https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/mysql.html</a></li>
<ul>
<li>On how to start,stop mysql in ubuntu</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="http://www.keywordintellect.com/tutorials/amazon-ec2-scalable-web-hosting/">http://www.keywordintellect.com/tutorials/amazon-ec2-scalable-web-hosting/</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Scalable web hosting with Amazon EC2 including launch instance, using putty with EC2</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="http://www.techsww.com/tutorials/database_management_systems/mysql/installation/how_to_install_mysql_client_ubuntu_linux.php">http://www.techsww.com/tutorials/database_management_systems/mysql/installation/how_to_install_mysql_client_ubuntu_linux.php</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Instructions for installing mysql client on ubuntu</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux">http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Instuctions for installing Oracle JDK</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this <a href="http://blog.peterdelahunty.com/2009/06/deploying-grails-app-on-ec2-in-from.html">http://blog.peterdelahunty.com/2009/06/deploying-grails-app-on-ec2-in-from.html</a></li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li>Download the Firefox plugins</li>
<li>Instructions for starting baseline Linux image</li>
<li>Instructions for installing Tomcat, mysql</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this <a href="http://codingthis.com/applications/uploading-files-to-your-amazon-ec2-server-using-winscp/">http://codingthis.com/applications/uploading-files-to-your-amazon-ec2-server-using-winscp/</a></li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li>Using winscp with Amazon EC2</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this <a href="http://hoodbook.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/into-the-cloud-migrating-my-apachejbossmysql-applications-to-amazon%E2%80%99s-ec2-part-ii/">http://hoodbook.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/into-the-cloud-migrating-my-apachejbossmysql-applications-to-amazon%E2%80%99s-ec2-part-ii/</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Get an Elastic IP</li>
<li>Running JBoss on Amazon EC2</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this <a href="http://matthom.com/archive/2012/03/26/using-amazon-rds-for-mysql-in-the-cloud">http://matthom.com/archive/2012/03/26/using-amazon-rds-for-mysql-in-the-cloud</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Setup mysql on Amazon RDS</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="http://seamframework.org/153035.lace">http://seamframework.org/153035.lace</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Setup JBoss 4.2.3 Mail service for Amazon SES</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1696998">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1696998</a> </li>
<ul>
<li>Setup build-essentials to compile swftools</li>
</ul>
<li>Referring this
<a href="https://designbye.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/installing-swftools-and-pdf2swf-on-ubuntu-linux/">https://designbye.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/installing-swftools-and-pdf2swf-on-ubuntu-linux/</a></li>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Remember to do this: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">sudo apt-get install --reinstall zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev </span></li>
<li>Setup swftools and pdf2swf on ubuntu</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div>
</div>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-62492550659303736672012-06-20T14:27:00.000+08:002012-06-22T13:09:45.113+08:00What Useful Resources for Pentaho BI CE?<div>
SagoBI looks complex and it takes time to get familiar as compared to <a href="http://art.sourceforge.net/">http://art.sourceforge.net</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I proceed to try out Pentaho BI CE instead, here are the resources I have adopted in my journey:<br />
<h2>
Suites and Plugins</h2>
</div>
<ul>
<li>This post got the latest update (CE 4.5). This post provides very comprehensive checklist for all the things to be install:
<a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-1/">http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-1/</a></li>
<li>Pentaho BI Server CE 3.7 setup but the step-by-step modifications to be perform on the various xml files is clearer than <a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-1/">interestingtips</a> -
<a href="http://www.prashantraju.com/projects/pentaho/">http://www.prashantraju.com/projects/pentaho/</a></li>
<li>Further instructions including including saiku and ctools </li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pablotips.blogspot.sg/p/installing-tomcat-and-pentaho.html">http://pablotips.blogspot.sg/p/installing-tomcat-and-pentaho.html</a></li>
</ul>
<li>How to add Saiku, BI Server and JPivot OLAP datasource?</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-3/" style="background-color: white;">http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-3/</a></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">The "Eclipses" to download
</span><a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/tag/pentaho-tools/" style="background-color: white;">http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/tag/pentaho-tools/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/pendular/">Pendular</a> - Another front-end for Pentao BI Server</li>
</ul>
<h2>
What interestingtips missed out?</h2>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Recently released : Saiku Report 1.0 (
<a href="http://mgiepz.github.com/saiku-reporting/">http://mgiepz.github.com/saiku-reporting/</a>)</li>
<li>OpenI (
<a href="http://openi.org/">http://openi.org/</a>)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>
Patches</h2>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Things to modify for the charts in examples to run
<a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-2/">http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-2/</a></li>
<li>How to remove the warning messages?
<a href="http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-5/">http://interestingittips.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/complete-pentaho-installation-on-ubuntu-part-5/</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>
Tutorials</h2>
<ul>
<ul>
</ul>
<li>Creating Dashboards with CDE:</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://type-exit.org/adventures-with-open-source-bi/2011/06/creating-dashboards-with-cde/">http://type-exit.org/adventures-with-open-source-bi/2011/06/creating-dashboards-with-cde/</a> (no need to seperately download CCC)</li>
</ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">How to join two fact tables with Pentaho Metaeditor?
</span><a href="http://diethardsteiner.blogspot.sg/2011/02/pentaho-metadata-editor-joining-two_04.html" style="background-color: white;">http://diethardsteiner.blogspot.sg/2011/02/pentaho-metadata-editor-joining-two_04.html</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>
Documentation</h3>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Pentaho Mondrian 3.0.4 Guide
<a href="http://docs.huihoo.com/mondrian/">http://docs.huihoo.com/mondrian/</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<ul>
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-68545972023002556062012-06-13T00:45:00.002+08:002012-06-13T00:46:48.702+08:00What are the Alternatives to OpenReport?<a href="http://oreports.com/">OpenReports (http://oreports.com/)</a> is being viewed to be DEPRECATED.<br />
<br />
Alternatives include the following:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/openreportv2/">Open Report V2 (http://code.google.com/p/openreportv2/)</a> - newcomer?</li>
<li><a href="http://reportserver.datenwerke.net/">ReportServer (http://reportserver.datenwerke.net)</a> - seems like not very popular based on the number of postings on the forum</li>
<li><a href="http://openi.org/">OpenI (http://openi.org/)</a> - doesn't look comfortable ...</li>
<li><a href="http://art.sourceforge.net/">ART (http://art.sourceforge.net/)</a> - looks ok to try further</li>
</ul>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-86140890864222699982012-05-22T21:51:00.001+08:002012-05-22T21:51:29.474+08:00InfoQ: Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing FrameworkMight be an interesting library to consider if you want to go beyond JUnit:<br />
<a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/dan-allen-arquillian-framework#.T7uZu89hghk.blogger">InfoQ: Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-72009439230705546382012-04-22T10:42:00.003+08:002012-04-22T10:42:45.949+08:00What are the Free Cloud Services?As metioned by Xeround:<br />
<a href="http://xeround.com/blog/2012/03/free-cloud-services-for-application-developers">http://xeround.com/blog/2012/03/free-cloud-services-for-application-developers</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-39114114425334852252012-04-02T14:34:00.000+08:002012-04-02T14:34:07.395+08:00Where to find 3D Ribbon Generator?Can use this to generate a CSS3 ribbon:<br />
<a href="http://www.css3d.net/ribbon-generator">http://www.css3d.net/ribbon-generator</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-76657044737891118902012-03-22T22:10:00.003+08:002012-03-22T22:10:47.612+08:00How to do XML <-> JSON?One option found:<br />
<a href="http://beckchr.github.com/staxon/">http://beckchr.github.com/staxon/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-11049623093574853722012-03-22T15:55:00.001+08:002012-03-22T15:55:23.785+08:00What is kuler?<a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/">http://kuler.adobe.com</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-80783263561384174292012-03-22T09:36:00.003+08:002012-03-22T09:36:33.250+08:00What are the Date and Time Picker in ExtJS?There are a few available:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>apleshkov DateTimePicker -
<a href="https://github.com/apleshkov/DateTimePicker">https://github.com/apleshkov/DateTimePicker</a></li>
<li>DateTimeField -
<a href="http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?22661-new-version-DateTime-Field">http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?22661-new-version-DateTime-Field</a></li>
<li><br /></li>
</ul>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-69197717774922769172012-03-19T22:30:00.001+08:002012-03-19T22:30:32.736+08:00What are the Possible Ways to Draw a Timeline Widget?Nothing come close in ExtJS (.<br />
<br />
Possible methods:<br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>This will be the first choice if there is no concern on the learning curve. SIMILE Widget - <a href="http://www.simile-widgets.org/">http://www.simile-widgets.org/</a></li>
<li>By Pure CSS Method, as mentioned in <a href="http://mattbango.com/notebook/web-development/pure-css-timeline/">Pure CSS Timeline</a>.</li>
<li>jQuery Timelinr -
<a href="http://www.csslab.cl/2011/08/18/jquery-timelinr/">http://www.csslab.cl/2011/08/18/jquery-timelinr/</a> - if you only need years</li>
<li>timeglider -
<a href="http://timeglider.com/jquery/">http://timeglider.com/jquery/</a> - it's not free for commercial use</li>
<li>Finally found something which might just be what we want: CHAP Links Library -
<a href="http://links.sourceforge.net/">http://links.sourceforge.net/</a></li>
</ol>
<br />
<br />
<br />mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-63639854602516448092012-03-19T21:41:00.001+08:002012-03-19T21:41:07.995+08:00What are the JSON Library Which Can Be Use in JDK 1.4?<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
I have found these links:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<a href="http://stringtree.org/stringtree-json.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://stringtree.org/<wbr></wbr>stringtree-json.html</a><u></u><u></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<a href="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-java" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr></wbr>douglascrockford/JSON-java</a><u></u><u></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<a href="http://www.rojotek.com/blog/2009/05/07/a-review-of-5-java-json-libraries/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.rojotek.com/blog/<wbr></wbr>2009/05/07/a-review-of-5-java-<wbr></wbr>json-libraries/</a></div>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-15037822236922936702012-03-14T15:13:00.001+08:002012-03-14T15:13:24.223+08:00How to Identify Color Code from Windows Screen?One of the tool - Instant Eye Dropper<br />
<a href="http://instant-eyedropper.com/">http://instant-eyedropper.com/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-20214488313660071892012-03-13T14:16:00.003+08:002012-03-13T14:16:28.522+08:00Kendo UI? Another ExtJS?Kendo UI<br />
<a href="http://www.kendoui.com/">http://www.kendoui.com/</a>
<br />
<br />
Interestingly from Telerikmallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-86124149953896810402012-03-12T15:10:00.002+08:002012-03-12T15:10:30.861+08:00How to get Rounded CSS Corner (with No Images)?This article gives the best summary:<br />
<a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/css-rounded-corners-in-all-browsers">http://jonraasch.com/blog/css-rounded-corners-in-all-browsers</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-79961233914854381742012-03-08T11:45:00.001+08:002012-03-08T11:45:19.108+08:00How to create WSDL-first SOAP client in Java with CXF and Maven?Try to use this to consume a webservice from Coldfusion:<br />
<a href="http://www.logicsector.com/java/how-to-create-a-wsdl-first-soap-client-in-java-with-cxf-and-maven/">http://www.logicsector.com/java/how-to-create-a-wsdl-first-soap-client-in-java-with-cxf-and-maven/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-21387385682549072882012-03-05T10:03:00.002+08:002012-03-06T21:50:41.057+08:00How do you develop a timeline widget?Two possible ways:<br />
<br />
SIMILE Widget - for Timeline<br />
<a href="http://www.simile-widgets.org/">http://www.simile-widgets.org/</a><br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
Ext Scheduler<br />
<a href="http://www.bryntum.com/products/scheduler/">http://www.bryntum.com/products/scheduler/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-60905333297260738562012-03-02T17:31:00.000+08:002012-03-05T13:32:03.320+08:00How to Convert Excel Data to JSON?We came across this useful site:<br />
<a href="http://shancarter.com/data_converter/">http://shancarter.com/data_converter/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-49308584706681852312012-03-01T18:33:00.001+08:002012-03-01T18:34:19.318+08:00jPortal Homepage & DemoHomepage at <a href="http://jqportal.com/index.html">http://jqportal.com/index.html</a><br />
<br />
Demo at <a href="http://demo.portalfin.com/">http://demo.portalfin.com/</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-48122489373606391662012-03-01T12:38:00.004+08:002012-03-01T12:38:48.653+08:00Liquibase Best Practise - The Old ArticleThe old version of the article is better than the latest version.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.liquibase.org/bestpractices?rev=1237998242">http://www.liquibase.org/bestpractices?rev=1237998242</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-12114990207551832322012-02-27T22:08:00.000+08:002012-02-27T22:25:52.980+08:00Jasmine BDD with ColdfusionBDD Javascript for Coldfusion<br />
<a href="http://coldfusionmumbojumbo.com/cf/index.cfm/cfconferences/cfobjective-2011/test-driven-development-in-javascript-with-jstd-and-jasmine/">http://coldfusionmumbojumbo.com/cf/index.cfm/cfconferences/cfobjective-2011/test-driven-development-in-javascript-with-jstd-and-jasmine/</a><br />
<br />
Testing tools comparisons: Gomez vs NeoLoad vs Loadrunner vs Selenium<br />
<a href="http://bharath-marrivada.blogspot.com/2011/03/gomez-neoload-loadrunner-selenium.html">http://bharath-marrivada.blogspot.com/2011/03/gomez-neoload-loadrunner-selenium.html</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-64268002885829220812012-02-22T09:36:00.001+08:002012-02-22T09:36:44.571+08:00How to take a Java Web Server down?This article mentions an approach by using a servlet filter<br />
<br />
<a href="http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-web-apps/web-app-maintenance.html">http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-web-apps/web-app-maintenance.html</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-89392665972519929122012-02-21T21:57:00.000+08:002012-02-21T22:47:41.641+08:00Tiny Java Web Server & PerconaTiny Java Web Server - smallest java web server around?<br />
<a href="http://tjws.sourceforge.net/">http://tjws.sourceforge.net/</a><br />
<br />
Percona's homepage at <a href="http://www.percona.com/software/">http://www.percona.com/software/</a> good enough to support mysql?mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-81826167568330379392012-02-07T16:41:00.002+08:002012-02-07T16:41:45.170+08:00How to gracefully handle session timeout in ExtJS?<a href="http://css.dzone.com/articles/art-gracefully-handling">http://css.dzone.com/articles/art-gracefully-handling</a>mallimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046823589060437294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950630226341286417.post-7918562873480111062012-01-27T18:16:00.003+08:002012-01-27T18:16:58.628+08:00How to schedule automated backup in Sql Server 2008?It's very easy...<br />
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