Merry Christmas everyone

webdetails team

Connected to Mozilla - 2010

Last week I was in Mountain View, California, for the Mozilla All-Hands work week. We've been working with them on the metrics team for over 2 years now, and has been an amazing ride.


Working with such an amazing group of people from all over the world is truly inspiring, and we end up absorbing some of the Mozilla values to the way we run our own company. We prepared a presentation to show them, and in the truth spirit of openness, nothing better than to share it.

Open publication

Thank you Mozilla, for an unforgettable 2010.
   Webdetails team

Saiku - the olap analytics tools everyone's waiting for

You may not know what Saiku is. You may know it by the old name - PAT (or Pentaho Analysis Tool). And even if doesn't ring a bell, I can tell you it's going to be the 21st century replacement for JPivot as the de facto Open Source OLAP navigator client.


The Saiku team recently did a contest to get a new logo designed to it.


As self-nominated #1 dashboard experts of the entire solar system (including Pluto, that will always be a planet in my book!) we had to enter that contest. After 49345 entries and iterations, guess what? We won, with the logo you see in this post! (and by we, I don't mean me, I mean our UI expert, Nuno Moreira).


In the true open source spirit, Webdetails decided to donate the prize to an opensource project. After a lot of investigation and discussion we chose to donate it to - drums roll - the Saiku project!


So now, Tom, Paul and all of you that work on the project, now that you are earning the big bucks, just give us version 1.0! Keep an eye on Tom Barber's blog for updates. In the meanwhile, all we have is the teaser:

CDE 1.0-RC3 available

Note: There was a mistake on the package. If you downloaded before December 03 and when you try to create a new dashboard and see an error like "missing ] after element list", please download and install again


What a quick turnaround. Turns out that RC2 didn't fix the main issue that prevented CDE to work on 3.7. With the help of some community members we were able to identify and fix it.




There were also some bugfixes included, and we tested all the samples in the distribution.


Admittedly there's a lack of documentation in CDE, so we included a sample that should clear the initial question of 'how to start'.


Download it from our website or directly from googlecode


Apart form this, the same release notes still hold as from the RC2:


This is much more than a new build, as lots of bugs and improvements were made in all the projects contained in the bundle (CDF, CDE, CCC, CDA, CST). Yes, you heard right, CST is also included in the bundle. One of the most important issues includes support for dashboard rendering in IE (including CCC charts)

Following the release notes:

CHANGELOG:

CDF:
- Upgraded to jquery 1.4.4
- Upgraded to jqueryui 1.8.6
- 3.7 compatibility fix for prptComponent
- Fixes to daterangeinput (no longer in chinese)
- Bug fix on blueprint render in IE

CCC:
- Several bug fixes in barcharts and stacked charts
- Implemented SVGWEB for IE rendering

CDE:
- Lots of internal changes in the way renderers work
- Added shortcut keys to CDE (press ? to see them)
- Fixed issue with order of execution
- Fixed dateComponent and Added support for lastWeek and lastMonth
- Added support for ${img:...} tags
- Updated jquery
- Added support for CCC in IE



INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:


Copy the files in this bundle to the pentaho-solution directory. If you have any
older versions of this files (and you'll have at least CDF) make sure you move
them out of the way. A server restart is required.



SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

- Pentaho 3.6 or 3.7