I’ve been hot-rodding Fiddler for some time now to make my life a lot easier when debugging my site tagging and analytics tracking requests. You can customize just about anything within the sessions window from the color, background, custom Read More
The more you play with big data technologies, the more you end up circling back to the basic question “How does my end user get access/value?”. Currently we’re using Amazon Redshift as a down and dirty query window on top Read More
The Mondrian documentation is terrible, and Java isn’t something you get to easily “dabble” in. My goal was to setup Mondrian on my Mac OSX machine, starting with Mondrian 3.5. While trying to set up the initial FoodMart sample dataset Read More
Recently, my old plumbing decided to choke up a round of sediment, wreaking havoc on all the little holes in my plumbing fixtures. Now the shower has very low water pressure, this time would be round two of clearing out Read More
Not suprisingly, most google results only returned things for doing this within some kind of PHP application. Probably because nobody belives in MySQL as a data warehouse, or a place to parse strings… In the do with what you have Read More
I’m a die-hard Amazon fanatic, and finally looked into Amazon Associates. As you probably didn’t notice, since you’re a new visitor – I’ve added some links in posts, as well as a nifty widget in my sidebar. I was surprised to only Read More
In my quest to keep upgrading I was greatly disappointed to see the specs for my 2007 HP Pavillion dv2500 laptop was a maximum of 4GB of RAM. I had already upgraded it to that much, and need to upgrade Read More
I’ve long been a synergy fan, and found that especially at work that multiple monitors work best when spread across extra computers. It’s like physical distributed computing. Now, part of learning how to work on a MacBook is being lazy and Read More
I’ve got a HP dv2500 I bought in late 2007, as standard practice I’m constantly updating hardware to see how long I can stretch its useful life… A while ago on Newegg I found a Wireless N card for just Read More
When trying to capture a successful form submission or user action, sometimes they are buried deep within Javascript libraries, or on page widgets, with no good way to reliably tie into their events. These are cases where the typical onclick Read More