Tableau Tip: The Right-Button Drag and Drop
Building time series charts is easy in Tableau. But what if you want to display a month-year time series? There are a few ways to do this, but this video shows you the fastest way. ...
Tableau Tip: The Right-Button Drag and Drop
Astaro / Sophos UTM NAT / Firewall Rules
Astaro, now part of Sophos Network Security, is a decent security appliance platform that sits atop of iptables for the firewall set. With that, the NAT rules can be a little different. I have experience with many brands, and the Astaro documentation isn't completely clear...
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise User Licensing – Time Running Out – Order by June 30, 2012
Last year, Microsoft unveiled the new core licensing model for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. It's a sensible change, but they are also doing away with user licensing, that's where I throw my hands up in confusion/disgust. I have some legitimate customers needing an enterprise...
How to bootstrap Drupal
Create a page outside of the CMS workflow that has access to Drupal's built-in functions. There are scenarios, the deeper you get into Drupal, where you will need to access Drupal's database and functions, but outside of the scope of the CMS. For instance, you may...
Interworks Hosts a Hello Drupal Event for Oklahoma State University Students
Chris Armstrong and myself presented a workshop entitled "Hello Drupal" earlier today on the Stillwater campus for Oklahoma State University. The workshop was open to students on campus that are interested in investigating the power of Drupal as a content management system. The course materials were...
Complex Data Blends – Blending across multiple fields.
In a perfect world, we'd have a single comprehensive data source to meet all our analytical needs. When that can't happen, I frequently turn to Tableau's Data Blending functionality that allows me to access and combine data stored in multiple systems. Data blending is a fantastic...
How to Fix Veeam 6 Object ‘Server’ Not Found Error in VMware
Summary/Purpose The purpose of this article is to explain a few instances of how an “Object Server Not Found Error” may occur and to show how to modify your Veeam database to fix your jobs in the event that: A vSphere server has crashed beyond a recoverable...
Can’t access network resources over VPN connection on Mac OS X
So you have your shiny OS X connected to a VPN, good deal! The problem is, you can't connect to any of the servers and workstations on the VPN. What could be wrong? It could be that OS X is still trying to find those machines...
Outlook 2010 “Insert Smart card” error
I came across this issue today where a client's Outlook 2010 client would connect to Exchange (2010), download all the email and then prompt for a smart card. It wasn't the usual prompt for a password/user name OR a smart card, it simply said insert...
A Look Back – Tableau Customer Conference Europe 2012
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Tableau's 2nd Annual European Customer Conference in Barcelona. I'm often asked by clients and partners alike about my experiences at these events. Aside from the opportunity to explore beautiful locations and enjoy face to face time with...