188 posts since 2009.
The original member of the Butler family has been updated to version 2.1. This is an incremental update, but it nonetheless contain some interesting news: * Updated all underlying libraries to their latest versions, to make sure things are up-to-date with respect to security vulnerabilities etc. * Fixed various
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
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
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
This one is long overdue, but finally here: Butler SOS v2.0 The new version is an almost complete re-write of v1.0. Changes are plentiful and include * All warnings and errors stored by Sense in its log database are now pulled into Butler SOS, from where it can
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
Last weekend I finally got around to doing something I have postponed for several years now. Being somewhat of a gadget hoarder, I have ended up with quite a large stack of rechargeable batteries. Everything from 12 Volt lead-acid ones from old UPS:s to Lithium-ion variants from
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
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!
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
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
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