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As requested by a few fans out there, here are the slides of my presentation

Dear Kettle and MySQL fans, Next week I’ll be strolling around the MySQL user conference in Santa Clara.  Even better, I’ll be presenting Tuesday afternoon (3:05pm).  The topic is Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 and MySQL. The presentation will show you what the world’s most popular open source data integration tool can do for a MySQL user.  It [...]

Dear Kettle fans, As you know, Kettle 4.0 received a new logging framework not so long ago.  It allows us to know exactly where a log-line comes from, even in complex ETL situations. So when codek asked to know the cause of errors in a job, it was quite easy to implement this. Here is a single screen [...]

Dear Kettle fans, Daniel & I had a lot of fun in Orlando last week. Among other things we worked on the User Defined Java Class (UDJC) step.  If you have a bit of Java Experience, this step allows you to quickly write your own plugin in a step. This step is available in recent builds [...]

Dear Kettle fans, Besides refactoring and cleaning up code, I fortunately can write some new code once in a while as well. Today, I’m happy to demo job drill down and step sniff testing for you. The first feature, Job drill down, allows you to drill down into a running job entry, into sub-jobs, transformations and even mappings [...]

Dear Pentaho friends, I just wanted to share some good news with you regarding a new study that got published today. Mark Madsen, an independent business intelligence analyst, together with the BeyeNETWORK took an in depth look at what is going in companies with respect to open source BI.** You can find the complete report over at the [...]

Hi Pentaho fans, These are exciting times for Pentaho for sure.  These are also extremely busy times.  However, that doesn’t mean we can’t look around once in a while.  Today we’ll take a quick look at a new book that arrived on my doorstep a few weeks ago.  It’s titled Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers I’m very [...]

Dear Linux fans, Last weekend I saw an ad for a netbook in a Carrefour superstore leaflet that I guess was just too good to refuse. Unlike other netbooks, this one was priced really low: €199,00 (including taxes which makes it cost my company €164.46 or about 200 $USD).  For me, that’s the price point where a [...]

Hello Pentaho fans, The organisers of the Devoxx conference have been so kind as to invite Pentaho to do a full (2×75 minutes) university session.  Devoxx takes place in the Metropolis cinema complex in Antwerp (formerly known as Javapolis) from ... [More] November 16-20th.  The session I’ll be doing is titled: Java business intelligence with Pentaho This will take place [...] [Less]

Just a quick update on the Kettle 4.0 logging architecture. Glad it’s finally arrived… In short: Log separation between objects (transformations, jobs, …) on the same server Central logging store infrastructure Logging data lineage so we know where ... [More] each log row comes from Incremental log updates from the central log store Color coding Log update Pause/continue Until next time, Matt P.S. Sorry about the audio hickups. [...] [Less]