Göran Sander · page 8 of 16

Stockholm, Sweden · 187 posts

Qlik Sense consultant and toolmaker at Ptarmigan Labs. Ten years at Spotify, Qlik Luminary and Partner Ambassador, author of the open source Butler tools.

About Ptarmigan Labs
Qlik Sense

Qonnections 2018 takeaways

Qlik’s annual Qonnections conference in Orlando wrapped up yesterday. Three days packed with the latest from both the Qlikosphere in general and Qlik in particular. I had more session conflicts (where I wanted to attend several interesting sessions at the same time) than during any previous year, which is

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Butler Icon Upload

Icon uploader for Qlik Sense

They say looks isn’t everything, it’s the inside that counts. Certainly true, but when it comes to web apps – including Qlik Sense apps – looks is important. Let’s check – which of these apps would you rather use? I was recently (again…) faced with uploading a few hundred icons

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Developer profile interview at Qlik Branch blog

I recently did an interview with the great people at the Qlik Branch blog, the post is now live over at their blog. Nothing new or revolutionary – just a few nuggets of info about who I am 🤓 Have a great weekend everyone! Göran

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Ptarmigan Labs is open for business!

Wow – after 10 years and one day at Spotify the time has come to take the next step. Going forward I will work in my own company, Ptarmigan Labs AB. The company’s focus will be more or less the same as what I have spent the past 6-7

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Qlik Sense

BigQuery ODBC driver now free from Google

A freebie for the weekend: Looks like Google is now offering a free ODBC driver for BigQuery. Google has licensed Simba’s driver, which is great! The Simba driver has proven very stable and performant, and being able to use it freely to access data in BigQuery is likely to

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Same same but different

New look and feel of the blog, but focusing on the same topics. Everything should in theory just work… but please report issues in the comments section below. Thanks!

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Qlik Sense

How to set up free SSL certificates for Qlik Sense

I recently had a need for an isolated Qlik Sense environment, in order to test some of the new features of Qlik Sense September 2017. While it works perfectly fine to run Sense with self-signed certificates, you then get browser warnings that the certificates are not valid etc. That

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Butler

Monitoring and auto-starting Node.js services on Windows Server

When relying on various Node.js services (e.g. Butler SOS, Butler, App Duplicator etc), you quickly run into the challenge to ensure all services are always up and running. A failing service might be fine, as long as it is quickly restarted in a predictable way. A concrete example

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Butler app duplicator

Qlik Sense app duplicator 2.0 released

On the surface everything looks the same. Under the hood everything has changed. The 2.0 release of the Qlik Sense app duplicator is a major update. Most code has been refactored. The most notable changes are: * Switched to using Enigma.js for talking to the Sense engine, instead of

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Butler SOS

Butler SOS goes main stage at Qonnections 2017

Edit: Qlik has made available a video from Anthony Deighton’s (Qlik’s CTO) keynote session. Very much worth looking through the entire video – it was very interesting indeed. His highlight of customer and partner project’s is found 12 min 36 sec into the video. A few weeks back

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