Just now upgrading my HTC Touch Diamond 2 to Windows Mobile 6.5 downloaded from HTC homepage, released 2009-10-27.
Make sure you have a backup or your files on the memory stick.
I am running Vista on 64 bit, all you had to do was start the Windows Mobile Device Center and make sure the phone was connected. Download the setup from HTC and execute. The whole process took about 5 minutes (except downloading the setup).
First startup took some time, more or less just about the time as the upgrade... And then some wizards and done!
No problems what so ever, amazing...
fredag 30 oktober 2009
torsdag 29 oktober 2009
Trying out new stuff: Yammer
As a part of the dev team at Business Vision you get to be a guinea pig for new services and software. I've been thinking a while about using twitter for internal communications instead of email.
However, some colleagues might not like the thought of everything they write being open for anyone to read, so I've entertained the thought of using some kind of internal twitter-service. I even considered writing a sharepoint web part.
Luckily I shared my plans with a co worker and he suggested using Yammer. That turned out to be really fortunate as I think Yammer is great. It has a great lightweight web UI and an optional desktop client. It keeps the simplicity of twitter while adding a few functions catering to more enterprisey users. For example the ability to create groups that you can restrict your messages (yams?) to.
The dev team is testing it right now. We will probably invite more people to join over the next few days so it's gonna be exciting to see how it is received.
(Pictured to the right is the Yammer desktop client)
However, some colleagues might not like the thought of everything they write being open for anyone to read, so I've entertained the thought of using some kind of internal twitter-service. I even considered writing a sharepoint web part.
Luckily I shared my plans with a co worker and he suggested using Yammer. That turned out to be really fortunate as I think Yammer is great. It has a great lightweight web UI and an optional desktop client. It keeps the simplicity of twitter while adding a few functions catering to more enterprisey users. For example the ability to create groups that you can restrict your messages (yams?) to.
The dev team is testing it right now. We will probably invite more people to join over the next few days so it's gonna be exciting to see how it is received.
(Pictured to the right is the Yammer desktop client)
onsdag 28 oktober 2009
Presenting the dev team: Dan Sydner
Before we begin, please let me introduce myself. My name is Dan Sydner and I've been at Business Vision for the last 5 years. Before that I studied computer science at KTH.
I spend my time at work doing consulting on the various BI tools Microsoft provides. Everything from handcoding (hardcoding?) SQL to SSRS SSAS and SSIS. I also do in house programming in C#, mostly maintaining our report delivery platform, Vision Reporter Web.
And last but not least I'm the editor of this blog! Trying to keep the other guys, Kalle and Richard in line.
I spend my time at work doing consulting on the various BI tools Microsoft provides. Everything from handcoding (hardcoding?) SQL to SSRS SSAS and SSIS. I also do in house programming in C#, mostly maintaining our report delivery platform, Vision Reporter Web.
And last but not least I'm the editor of this blog! Trying to keep the other guys, Kalle and Richard in line.
Excel 2010 - What is new?
I have now been using Office 2010 CTP since the beginning of August and it's now time to give my view on Excel 2010 from a Business Intelligence point of view.
So, what's new? Not much actually, it feels more or less like Excel 2007 except the blue color. It feels more like a service pack or something. They have fixed many things that felt strange in Excel 2007. So the overall judgement is that Excel 2010 is a little bit better in general.
The two major changes that I think is of importance to Business Intelligence users is: Pivot Slicers and Sparklines.
Pivot Slicers
This is nothing but a flat pivot filter but with some intelligence. Instead of drilling down in a tree view, you can now filter from a more intuitive user interface. The main thing however, is that the slicer knows the choices in the filter that contains information.
The typical scenario is when using the time dimension on the current year. The month or quarters that hasn't happened yet, are greyed out. In the example below, there is no male with 5 children that has 0-1 cars in the underlying data set. This works with cubes, tables and PowerPivot (Gemini).
Sparklines
Sparklines is a nice feature, a small diagram in a cell. You can quickly get a feeling for historical data. I can't say it's a revolution but a nice feature. This will also be available in reporting services 2008 R2.
That's it... The big revolution was Excel 2007, now it's just a little bit better in general.
So, what's new? Not much actually, it feels more or less like Excel 2007 except the blue color. It feels more like a service pack or something. They have fixed many things that felt strange in Excel 2007. So the overall judgement is that Excel 2010 is a little bit better in general.
The two major changes that I think is of importance to Business Intelligence users is: Pivot Slicers and Sparklines.
Pivot Slicers
This is nothing but a flat pivot filter but with some intelligence. Instead of drilling down in a tree view, you can now filter from a more intuitive user interface. The main thing however, is that the slicer knows the choices in the filter that contains information.The typical scenario is when using the time dimension on the current year. The month or quarters that hasn't happened yet, are greyed out. In the example below, there is no male with 5 children that has 0-1 cars in the underlying data set. This works with cubes, tables and PowerPivot (Gemini).
Sparklines
Sparklines is a nice feature, a small diagram in a cell. You can quickly get a feeling for historical data. I can't say it's a revolution but a nice feature. This will also be available in reporting services 2008 R2.
That's it... The big revolution was Excel 2007, now it's just a little bit better in general.
fredag 23 oktober 2009
Gemini - PowerPivot
Right now listening to Donald Farmer about PowerPivot.
He just showed.how to import a 4 000 000 rows from sql server. Really no magic going on, if you are on a slow network 1 000 000 000 rows will take a loooong time.
Also, since powerpivot is a column based store, datamining wont be available at this point. That ruins the data compression.
You will be able to add additional meta data such as calculated nembers and measures. Many functions, mdx-like, like a lot of time functions. So you can more or less skip olap...
The coolest thing though, is that you can import data from multiple sources, ie sap and the web and define relationships between theese sources.
Last post from sharepoint conference 2009
In total, a very good conference, but not that many news. Last years bi conference in seattle contained most of the stuff here, but this time it seemed to work...
Over and out
Skickat från min HTC Touch Diamond2
torsdag 22 oktober 2009
Connecting Silverlight Web Parts
In Bob German session about integrating Silverlight in SharePoint, did he demonstrate a sound solution of interconnect Silverlight application hosted in Web Parts.As SharePoint's built-in support for Web Part communication is server side based, it require postbacks when transmitting data between web parts. This is bad, particularly for Silverlight apps as they (usually) loses there states after an postback, and it gives bad user experiences.
However in Bobs solution, the built-in Web Part communication are only used to mediate the DOM object ID between the Silverlight Applications. That enables a Silverlight Web Part to pass data using a HTML bridge. This technique allows instant communication and interaction between Silverlight web parts and Web part configurations on the SharePoint site as usual. Sweet!
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