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My first book about Pentaho is out! 17 Jul 2013 | 12:42 am
Today is a great day for me and I'm very proud about this. It is the realization of a dream I had from a long time: have the possibility to write a technical book. In February 2013, a guy from Packt ...
Print Pentaho Reports from PDI efficiently and without pain! 10 Jun 2013 | 01:59 pm
These days I'm involved in a project where we need to print reports directly from our PDI processes. So what a good option to use the PRD output step to do that? The idea was to find out a way for not...
Pretty print XML and JSON files with PDI (2/2) 22 Apr 2013 | 10:24 am
Today I'm back with the second part of my recipe about how two pretty print XML and JSON files with PDI. You can find the first part here. To pretty print whatever JSON stream a good starting point i...
Pretty printing XML and JSON files with PDI (1/2) 20 Apr 2013 | 01:43 am
These days I've got into a stupid trouble with PDI. A customer asked me to build a process that produces an XML file as a result; the result I get was horrible from a presentation standpoint: the file...
Saiku UI Enhancements and new Excel export 23 Jun 2012 | 06:25 am
Hi everybody. As promised we've some chestnuts that are ready to be eaten and here we are! We decided to start working on one of the major pieces of the Pentaho CE suite: the newest OLAP client Saiku....
I'm back after a long time missing.... 22 Jun 2012 | 05:41 pm
Hi everybody and sorry for not writing anything for so much time. Write a post is a nice thing and I love it but it takes time and during this last period I haven't had any time to write anything here...
Adjust detail rows height in WAQR templates dynamically 22 Nov 2010 | 04:43 am
Today I'm back writing something about WAQR. Yesterday one of my customers wrote me about a problem they were having while executing WAQR reports that has a long text in their columns. If you had colu...
Processing group of files executing a job once per file 26 Aug 2010 | 11:05 am
How many of us ever had the need to process a set of files through Kettle executing jobs or transactions on a per file base. Let me make an example to illustrate a particular use case. Suppose we've ...
Dealing with Kettle DBCache 26 Aug 2010 | 03:52 am
I came from 4 weeks of summer holidays... First time in my life but it was beautiful to spend a lot of time with my family. I need to take some time for them more often. Anyway, today I was doing my ...
Blogging from my summer holidays 14 Aug 2010 | 10:25 am
Today I was reading through my twitter client the latest news and my attention was catched by all the tweets around the latest Doug post on the Pentaho forum. So I immediately connected through my pho...
