17 February 2009
Free Software Development & Tech Event in Boise
Boise Code Camp 2009 is a free, popular (400+ registrants last year) and educational conference on a Saturday (March 28) down at Boise State University. Speakers from our community, and a few respected north-westerners, cover software development, IT, Read More...
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23 January 2009
PerformancePoint just got sharper
We announced an update to the Microsoft BI roadmap today. The video by Guy Weismantel, Director of Microsoft BI is the authoritative source on the change at the moment, and I expect there will be press release/FAQ at Microsoft PressPass (I don’t see it Read More...
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05 December 2008
Dashboard Deployment Without Folders
When deploying a dashboard to a document library from PerformancePoint 2007 Dashboard Designer, Dashboard Designer creates each dashboard page .aspx file in a folder named the same as the dashboard:   But what if we don’t want folders? The “Create Read More...
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24 November 2008
Treemap + Silverlight => Gasp!
From http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/ Microsoft’s Global Product Development team in Europe recently completed its Treemap control for visualizing hierarchical data, seen below.  You can read more about it here and leave your feedback. If you are excited Read More...
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17 November 2008
PerformancePoint Monitoring + Silverlight: KPIs and Scorecards
PerformancePoint Monitoring doesn't have as robust a prescription as Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint , but yes, PerformancePoint Monitoring & Silverlight can be used together. PerformancePoint dashboards are SharePoint web part pages, so web Read More...
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24 July 2008
Working with well-known properties and PmService
Tim Kent at Adatis did a nice writeup on how to work with the "well-known properties" Name, Description, and Person Responsible of a PerformancePoint Monitoring first-class object (a KPI, a Scorecard, a Data Source, etc.) when calling the PmService Read More...
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21 July 2008
Sparklines plugin for jQuery
Ran into this on the tubes this morning: This jQuery plugin generates sparklines directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript. http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ In theory you'd be able to use this to sparkline-ize Read More...
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18 July 2008
Careers at Microsoft Boise
Every month folks at NETDUG ask if we're hiring, whether they can give resumes to me, what it's like to work for Microsoft in Boise, are we moving to a larger/nicer building in Boise, etc. You can see all currently available openings on the Microsoft Read More...
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17 July 2008
Changing the background color of ProClarity Performance Map (aka Heat Map)
Customers often want to set the background color of analytic visualizations such as the ProClarity charts & grids, to match a corporate or dashboard theme. Unlike the ProClarity charts & grids, it's not possible to set the background color of Read More...
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11 June 2008
PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK content from TechEd
Here's the sample code and slides I showed about the PerformancePoint SDK at TechEd. A couple notes: The build OutputDir and xcopy post-build steps assume default locations for PerformancePoint assemblies, the Monitoring Web Service, and SharePoint :80 Read More...
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05 June 2008
Thanks!
To everyone who attended my sessions and whom I talked to at TechEd 08: thank you! I got some of the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK feedback I was looking for, both during the sessions, and especially in follow-on talks. I hope they, and the other breakouts Read More...
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30 May 2008
PerformancePoint 2007 SDK at TechEd!
I'll be facilitating 2 chalk-talks/Q&As in the TLC Interactive Theatre (small audience) at Tech·Ed 2008 Developers about PerformancePoint: BIN03-TLC  "Navigating the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SDK" June 3 3:00PM-4:15PM Read More...
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05 May 2008
Google charting
I was toying around with FriendFeed and discovered Google's charting engine. Mmm, pie: The engine can render Google Analytics-esque sparklines too. The simplicity and accessibility of this API is impressive... it's all in the URL. Now, I'm a bit agitated Read More...
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02 May 2008
New tool for PerformancePoint migration
Kevin Idzi of Microsoft just released a new tool on Codeplex for painlessly moving PerformancePoint (and Excel and ProClarity) BI content between different servers, updating reference & security settings along the way... behold, The BI Report Automation Read More...
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29 April 2008
Show Your Work
One of the great tools Microsoft Office Labs builds is "Community Clips", which makes it easy to record what happens on-screen, along with microphone-in, as a nicely-compressed WMV file. I use the tool primarily as a way to show bugs or design Read More...
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