Kettle

I’ve always been a fan of gadgets and so when it came time to buy my dad a replacement for his 6 year old Palm Pilot that recently broke down, we (me and my sisters) bought him an Apple iPad.  Just to make this clear and to get this out of the way, it was [...]

Dear Kettle friends, Last year, right after the summer in version 4.1 of Pentaho Data Integration, we introduced the notion of dynamically inserted ETL metadata (Youtube video here).  Since then we received a lot of positive feedback on this functionality which encouraged me to extend it to a few more steps. Already with support for “CSV [...]

Dear Kettle fans, Five years ago, in early December 2005, I released Kettle in the form of 160,000 lines of Java code. The only thing that this initial open source version of Kettle had going for it was the fact that it worked. Sure it wasn’t perfect as no data integration tool can ever be perfect.  [...]

Dear Kettle fans, PDI-200 has been out there for a while now.  Jens created the feature request a little over 3 years ago.  I guess the main thing blocking this issue was not as much a technical problem but more of a licensing and dependency one (Oracle JDBC dependency and distribution license). However, now that we have [...]

Dear Kettle users, Certain persons kept bugging me about this new “Pentaho Reporting Output” step I was allegedly writing.  It was based on 3 year old code for version 2.4.  So in the end I decided to sacrifice some sleep to get it done for the new upcoming version 4.1.0 of PDI. Here is the announcement I [...]

Dear Kettle friends, As mentioned in my previous blog post, copies of our new book Pentaho Kettle Solutions are finally shipping.  Roland, Jos and myself worked really hard on it and, as you can probably imagine, we were really happy when we finally got the physical version of our book in our hands. So let’s take a [...]

Hi Folks, Only a few hours before I left for the EMEA Partner Event and the Community Meetup 2010 I received 5 copies of our book titled Pentaho Kettle Solutions.  I was happy and curious to see how the book turned out… I brought a few copies with me to Lisbon  Since my flight is boarding, [...]

Hi Kettle friends, Right before we close the 4.1 development cycle in big anticipation of the BI Server “Sugar” 3.7.0 release, I wanted to get a few things done that were on my mind for quite a while and so I decided to take another look at the handling of hops between steps and job entries. One [...]

Hello Kettle people! It’s been a while since my last blog but I since there is always so much to tell you about Kettle, it’s high time to pick up the pace again. This time I want to inform you that Kettle developer superstar Samatar informed me that he’s working on JSON steps as par of JIRA [...]

Dear Kettle fans, A few weeks ago, when I was stuck in the US after the MySQL User Conference, a new book was published by Packt Publishing. That all by itself is something that is not too remarkable.  However, this time it’s a book about my brainchild Kettle. That makes this book very special to me. The [...]