DashBoard
It’s been a while since I wrote about what I’m doing, but nothing much has changed: I’m working with the iPhone SDK making different applications. Today I’d like to demo the application that made me start working with the iPhone: DashBoard. I first got interested with dashboards when I tried to make something userfriendly with […]
iPhone dev continues
My work with the iPhone SDK continues, working on three clients to our backend services at the moment. I’m very much looking forward to blogging about this as it’s cleared at work. But as you probably have noticed from my posts, working locally and synchronizing with the back-end is what I believe most iPhone applications […]
Setup visual studio for sharepoint development
A food obsessed IT developer writes about setting up visual studio to develop for sharepoint without having sharepoint installed on the development computer. Nice instructions and saved me quite a bit of time.
Templates in Sharepoint
I was installing a set of templates on a sharepoint server I’m setting up for work, and I came accross these great instruction on how to install them, since I had the same problem as Matthew in the comments. I even learned that the command line has for-loops. I always assumed this shell had absolutely […]
Questions Dashboard Users ask
Reading more in The Dashboard Spy I found this great table of questions users ask and how you should answer them when it comes to designing dashboard:
Check out the reference whitepaper by PureShare on Best Practices in Dashboard Design. And for that next great UI design, check out 175+ Data and Information Visualization Examples and […]
Named Calculation expressions
Just a quick note on Name Calculations in SSAS, they need to be written in whatever SQL dialect the underlying DB engine (probably MS-SQL) understands. I wanted to make a Sales Margin calculation, and to avoid a Divide by Zero where sale price was zero, my code for this was:
CASE
WHEN Sale0 THEN (Sale-Cost)/Sale
ELSE 0
END
Never before […]
Great dashboard!
Indianapolis Museum of Art has the best dashboard ever. If you’re a happy mac user and working with business intelligence, you’ll want to make dashboards like this! (Thank you DashboardSpy for the link)
Easy FFT tradeoff explanation
I found a very nice explanation of the tradeoffs when doing an FFT by Fred Marshall here. Look at the last post on the page.
FreeBSD + postfix + sasl2 + pam + mysql = Working Authenticated SMTP
This is most of all meant as a note-to-self to next time I’ll have to do this.
Installed the port mail/courier-authlib with the following options:
WITH_PAM=true
WITHOUT_VPOPMAIL=true
WITH_MYSQL=true
WITHOUT_POSTGRESQL=true
WITHOUT_LDAP=true
WITHOUT_GDBM=true
WITH_AUTHUSERDB=true
Installed Postfix with SASL2 and TLS. Config to Postfix’ main.cf:
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
SASL2 needs “-r -a pam” flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh and the following in /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
Finally, […]
SSL support in Java
I’m making an XMLRPC server in Python that I need to access from a Java Servlet. But the default security manager is picky about allowing SSL certificates it does not trust (if you were in doubt: this is a good thing! ). The solution (based on this site was:
openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.crt.der […]
Eclipse and Mac OS X
Cool, seems Apple is backing Eclipse by putting it as a featured tool on their web: Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination. I used Eclipse a while ago and loved it, but on OS X it was too slow to use for anything worthwhile. I hope this has changed in the last half […]
Laszlo
I’ll need to check out Laszlo and it’s open source server.
PHP5 - Sad state of affairs
I’ve been working on installing PHP5 on client webservers the past couple of days, and with some help that’s been going all right. Much I’ve read has been on the merits of PHP5 vs PHP4, little have I read on user experience. So here’s my first experiences with PHP5 and commonly used PHP packages:
Wordpress - […]
PHP regex problem
PHP allows the use of the PCRE library, but PHP5 comes with an interesting, undocumented twitch: You have to add –with-pcre-regex if you want to use preg_match(), a quite commonly used function. With PHP4, all you did was –with-pcre and you got the whole package, and the –with-pcre-regex is undocumented in the configure program of […]
Testing at M$
The IE blog has an entryabout testing that I found quite nice to read. I’m very fond of tests
Strange network traffic
Hi all,
do you recognize this kind of ethernet traffic? This is the output (repeated over and over) from tcpdump
17:15:59.702633 01:80:c2:00:00:01 > 01:80:c2:00:00:01, ethertype Unknown (0×8808), length 60:
0×0000: 0001 ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 …………….
0×0010: […]
Antispoof feature in ipfw
I should be sure to include the ipfw antispoof option,
implemented by Andre Oppermann in FreeBSD’s ipfw, at work
atacontrol panic
I’ve had a panic with FreeBSD’s ata-raid under -CURRENT the last few days, collected it all and wrote to Søren about it. A little while later, a patch pops in. It all works. Thanks a bunch, Søren.
