MSTR 9 + Win Svr 2012: A match made for hotfixin’

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I recently spun up a MicroStrategy VM to be used as a demo/training box. In doing so it seemed natural to throw it on a Windows Server 2012. MicroStrategy 9 is shiny and new, Windows Server 2012 is shiny and new, what could possibly go wrong? Well, I’m posting about it. There’s the first clue. 1st … Continued

Axian is Leading the Agile Journey

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originally published by Brent Harrison, Founder & President of SmokeJumper Strategy featuring Cory Morgan, Solution Architect at Axian I recently worked with a leading online retailer and wanted to share one product team’s agile journey.  First the “players”: Margaret is the Tech Lead for the team that is focused on marshalling and delivering digital content … Continued

A PostMortem Template

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In my last 2 posts I discussed the importance of engaging in a postmortem at the end of your projects and promised to provide a template that can be followed when gathering feedback prior to the meeting and consolidating feedback during the meeting. Templates like this have been created and posted all over the web … Continued

PHP, Eclipse and the Zend Framework

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So I jumped at the idea of working on a PHP/Zend project.  I mean, who doesn’t relish the thought of developing in a weakly-typed language that seems more like a virtual explosion of the key-word and function factory than an actual language alongside a bloated, overly complex MVC framework?  Throwing caution to the wind, I … Continued

The BI Data Process Overview

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“How do you get data organized and stored so that Business Intelligence tools can access and distribute valuable information to the right people at the right time?” I intend to summarize a technique that I have used for several years now and will do a deep dive on each topic in future posts. I adopted … Continued

TROUBLESHOOTING SHAREPOINT 2010 SEARCH

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You’ll Need a Logger For That Although it’s a killer feature, Search is as awkward as ever to troubleshoot inSharePoint 2010. The Event Viewer chatter is pretty meek for troubleshooting, and the Search Center crawler reports have couple minute lag which makes them awkward to work with. The ULS logs can be great, but some … Continued