If you’ve read my article 3 Rules for Making Dashboards you’ll know I’m a big fan of physical metaphors. It amazes me how as soon as we move something to the web, everyone thinks the rules we use to cultivate physical media go right out the window. The biggest example of this is the type ramp. Newspapers, […]
Month: September 2015
Sqoop and Hive for Data Analysis
Utilizing Sqoop and Hive for data analysis can allow you to reuse your SQL skills to take advantage of the Hadoop ecosystem without having to learn a new language and lots of new processes. This article assumes you already have the Hortonworks Data Platform already installed on your machine/virtual host. This article will show you how […]
Cross Domain ExtJS File Uploading
Uploading forms is a basic operation for most applications along with other asynchronous requests, many which may go cross domain. While we now have CORS support for most operations, file uploading in ExtJS is behind. Ext.form.Basic.hasUpload describes the file uploading process Returns true if the form contains a file upload field. This is used to determine […]
3 Rules for Making Dashboards
So recently I’ve run into this trend where I start an application and on my task list the word “Dashboard” appears. This word brings excitement and dread at the same time. Below are what I consider the 3 major rules when making a good dashboard. What is a Dashboard? Dictionary.com describes a dashboard for computers […]
DeftJS Dependency Injection with ExtJS or Sencha Touch
DeftJS provides functionality that allows you to create ExtJS and Sencha Touch applications that are robust and highly maintainable by reducing the spaghetti code created by complex application business logic. Out of box ExtJS and Sencha Touch give us access to Controllers, ViewContollers, Models, and Views. Business logic can be performed in the Controllers and […]
WordPress Installation using Amazon Web Services
So to set up a few sites using WordPress I decided to set up a new virtual server using Amazon Web Services. I provisioned an EC2 t2.small Ubuntu instance that I would use the run everything on. Later on I’ll probably distribute the load using RDS to move the MySQL database off of the host. I […]