July 2008 - Posts

• 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... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:42 AM by Wade Dorrell | 1 Comments

• 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... Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 10:12 AM by Wade Dorrell | 0 Comments

• 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... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 3:36 PM by Wade Dorrell | 7 Comments Filed under: proclarity, boise, jobs, developersdevelopersdevelopers, careers

• 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... Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:45 AM by Wade Dorrell | 1 Comments Filed under: proclarity, visualizations, heatmap, performance map, colors