Kettle

Perhaps now I can do a micro-blog entry about my blog to make the circle complete? Twitter! I guess I still don’t get it but I’m going to try if for a while to see if I get hooked. Until next time, Matt

Dear Kettle fans, The last main item on my agenda before we could release a release candidate of version 3.2. was the inclusion of a number of features that would help us make dynamic clustering easier. It was already possible to make things happen, but thanks to Sven Bodens parameters, we can now up all that one [...]

Dear Kettle fans, One of the things that’s been on my TODO list for a while was the creation of a resource exporter… Resource exporter? It’s called “Resource exporter” and not “Job exporter” or “Transformation exporter” because it is intended to export more than just a single job or transformation.  It exports all linked resources of a job [...]

Dear reader, In a little over 3 weeks, April 2nd and 3rd, we’re organizing a Pentaho Partner Summit at the Quadrus Conference Center in Menlo Park near San Francisco. If you are (as the invitation describes) an “Executive, luminary, current or prospective partner from around the world” and if you come over you’ll meet myself, Julian Hyde [...]

I just heard from cry for help from fellow countryman Jochen Maes on planet grep.  Apparently Freenode, the service that provides us with our ##pentaho IRC channel is in need of a bit of money. So obviously I donated a couple of GBP.  After all, they aren’t worth what they used to be so it’s cheap [...]

Dear PDI fans, Today we’re releasing another version of the Pentaho Data Integration Community Edition (a.k.a. Kettle) : version 3.2.0-Milestone 1. The binary zip file The tar.gz version The Apple OSX dmg The javadoc The source code (coming soon!) ... [More] This is built on the trunk source code in subversion, revision 10101. A lot of things have changed as can be seen by the [...] [Less]

Dear Data Integration fans, A few weeks ago, Yves de Montcheuil from Talend took a shot across the bow of Gartner for not including Talend in their Magic Quadrant (MQ) for data integration.  After that post, Andreas Bitter from Gartner (rightfully) felt personally under assault and felt the need to set the record straight. I think the [...]

Dear Linux fans, In a professional environment, you sometimes want to demonstrate some functionality on your local machine to other people in the world. Up until recently, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do that.  Windows works for all desktop sharing solutions, a number work on OSX too, but none on Linux.  [...]

Hi Kettle fans, Lately we’ve been having a lot of fun and profit from our brand new Hudson continuous build server. Hudson finally gives us a nice interface to everything build related.  Most if not all Pentaho projects are integrated by now ... [More] , including Pentaho Data Integration / Kettle over here: http://ci.pentaho.com/job/Kettle/ It provides you an overview of the latest [...] [Less]

One of the lesser known features of Pentaho Data Integration 3.1 was the inclusion of E4X a.k.a EMCAScript for XML.  Up until recently I didn’t really have time to look more closely to the details behind it.  Today someone asked how to set an attribute in an XML string using JavaScript.  Well, this is how [...]