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Qlik Sense is pretty cool. Ok, it’s early days and they are still on version 1.x, but still – lots of potential there. And the name is kind of neat too – Qlik’s marketing people must have had a long hard think before settling on “Sense” for their next
Slack has only been around since August 2013, but I would definitively say it’s one of the better team communication services out there. The web client is great, and the OSX and IOS clients are truly awesome. It integrates with tons of other services, including Dropbox, GitHub, IFTTT, Jira,
Node-RED is a truly awesome framework for visually building data flows. There is a lot of focus on wiring together hardware devices and Internet of Things, but there are also plenty of modules for connecting to email, social media, various online services etc. After using it during some months
Let’s try an experiment. I have set up a questionnaire that anyone can fill in and submit. There you can add working and non-working memory configurations for your Synology NAS. Ideally this will enable people to increase the memory in their NAS:es without lots of trial and
Update: Let’s work together and capture data on what memory modules work, and which don’t, on the DS1515+ and other Synology NAS models! As noted in a previous post, a new Synology DS1515+ NAS landed here the other week. It’s a very nice products in most respects,
A great feature of Qlik Sense is that your ETL/load script scripts can be moved over from existing QlikView apps with very few modifications. Basically, you need to change the data sources to Sense’s way of doing things* (which I would say is a lot more robust and
Qlik Sense is very nice in most ways, the development environment however still falls short when compared to the one found in QlikView. Having a proper Windows client (which QlikView has) just gives more flexibility than using a web based editor and development environment. Don’t get me wrong – Sense
Update: Turns out it is the “Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3013767)” that when installed on the server in question prevents the QlikView Directory Service to start. Installing the other two updates mentioned below (KB3004365 and KB3029449) does not affect QV operation. While doing regular maintenance of a QlikView server
A recent inventory of network switches showed that the one that is in most active use was on an outdated firmware revision. I really like the switch in question, an HP ProCurve 1800-24G, as it is fanless and thus completely silent. It’s been in 24/7 use for
New year – new resolutions. Time to finally bring some order to the various network gear, servers, tools, cables, computer parts, electronics components…….. stuff in general that is in more or less active use around here. Let’s start with network switches. I only use a couple of these actively, so
The trusty Netgear ReadyNAS 312 has served very well over the past couple of years, and is still doing ok. It has however started to run out of space, and even though the disks could be replaced by bigger ones, it was time to move to something larger. As much
Change for the sake of change? Maybe… or a chance to learn something new. Either way, this blog has now been moved away from WordPress.com to a new host. After a fair bit of research, the decision was to go with the Virtual Private Servers offered by Digital Ocean.