Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Pentaho Ctools history - an Infographic

Our amazing UX team decided to create an info graphic to show the history of the Ctools for Pentaho.




Make sure you see here the full result

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

New Ctools releases 12.07.19 (Lots of them!)

Lots of new releases, including some new ones!



CDE Release 12.07.19

Major changes:
  • Allow plugins to register extra cde components
  • CPF usage as component basis
  • New Popup Component and Reference
  • Added new component based on textarea html object.

Full Changelog:
  • Implemented [REDMINE 281] - Allow plugins to register extra cde components
  • Support for output index in external CDAs
  • CPF usage as component basis
  • New Popup Component and Reference    
  • Added new component based on textarea html object. Added properties of max length and size to text input component edition    
  • Fixed [REDMINE 856] - CDE allows non-privileged users access to edit dashboards.
  • Fixed [REDMINE 721] - SelectMulti Isn't populated, feeded by another SelectMulti Component
  • Fixed [REDMINE 424] - CDA creation sometimes adds a prefix / to catalog that disables Mondrian role mapping 
  • Added start and end Date parameters to DatePicker Component, which can be controlled by the dateFormat parameter.
  • FileExplorer returns different info from getExtension in fileBased and db rep. Adding both
  • Allow Icons (.ico) to be downloaded
  • [PATCH] BulletChart support for the tooltipFormat option
  • disable edit option in olap wizard file open; prompts a bit less green
  • SiteMap Component update
 
 
CDF Release 12.07.19

Major changes:
  • Add clippedText AddIn
  • add column headers support to group headers addIn
  • Stacked bars with line: plot panel clipping was activated due to forcing orthoFixedMin to 0 and resulted in cut dots

Full changelog:

  • [Redmine-207] - tableComponent oLanguage fix
  • Turned pvc.defaultColorScheme public (for readonly access)
  • [FEAT] Added a hook for plugging in a default chart colorscheme (CvK Feb. 2012)
  • Add clippedText AddIn
  • add column headers support to group headers addIn
  • Added support in fireChange for components to be able to update without triggering increment/decrementRunningCalls.
  • Changed the behaviour of the clickable "span" for removal. Before, we needed to click on the "x" to get the selection out, now you just need to click on the span of that selection
  • output-index for external cda's
  • jqueryui: use ctrlKey instead of metaKey for multiple selection
  • set datepicker defaults only if it exists
  • CDF tutorial needs that both zip and xml files be downloadable by CDF
  • Patch to fix HeatGrid performance problem.
  • Added queryState to query component.
  • MapComponent fix for FF13 - FooComponent as first object in classNames[]
  • [PATCH] Stacked bars with line: plot panel clipping was activated due to forcing orthoFixedMin to 0 and resulted in cut dots
  • Added underscore, backbone and mustache
  • circle addin border width was not working on Chrome
  • [REDMINE 721, REDMINE 771] selectMultiComponent null-related issues; impromptu css less green
  • Added override to input[type=text] margin and dataTables min-height
  • [PATCH] BulletChart support for the tooltipFormat option.
  • Added TextareaInputComponent
  • Added erichynds Multiselect JQuery Plugin Files
  • Fix the Clean template, which wasn't actually as clean as all that.
  • changed table click handler to use rawData instead of query.lastResult so we can access postFetch changes
  • [REDMINE 206] - Dates are always used in iso format on parameters regardless of display date format
 
 
CDA Release 12.07.19

Major upgrades:
  • Now using CPF (Community Plugin Framework)
  • Integration with CDV

Full changelog:
  • Fixed [REDMINE CDA797] - ClassLoader issue using CdaQueryComponent in FusionContentGenerator
  • Fixed [REDMINE CDA787] - use cde ext-editor for cda files
  • Introduced CPF As plugin base
  • New Robochef Version - Memory optimization
  • CDV Integration
  • print stack trace for hazelcast serialization errors, +MdxDataAccess.ExtraCacheKey.toString()
  • path issue in cda editor
  • -Util.isNullOrEmpty, using StringUtils; build was changed to use 4.5 2 commits ago
  • pathParams->requestParams
  • cde-editor corrections
  • Use cde as editor if available; +RepositoryAccess and some cleaning
 
CDB Release 12.07.19 
  • First release!

CDC Release 12.07.19 
  • First release!

CDV Release 12.07.19 
  • First release!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Java leap second bug - how to fix your broken servers


Great way to spend a Saturday night. So much fuss about Y2K and turns out a single second can turn a simple night into chaos.


Simply put, here's a possible fix that might save the night:
/etc/init.d/ntp stop; date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date

 After doing this, see if the cpu usage falls down. If not, a simple restart of the service should be enough.

Good luck


Edit: There are some advices about leaving ntp off for a while