Thursday, October 15, 2009

App Store Suggestion - Ability to Flag an App as Interesting

Often when I'm browsing the Apple App store I come across something that I might want to buy, but just not now. The app Baby Names Plus is an example: I heard about it on the Mac OS Ken podcast and thought it was interesting, but not interesting enough to drop the 2.99 on right now (I know, I'm cheap). What I would like is the ability to flag it as "I want to come back to this later." Perhaps each of the drop downs ("App Store," "Music," etc.) in the newest iteration of the App store could have an additional item in the list - "flagged apps" perhaps. Anyone from Apple reading this?

Monday, October 12, 2009

Columbus

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And then—wait...what rhymes with "genocide"? (via Twitter: http://twitter.com/fedge/status/4812255805 ) ... yea, I like black humor.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

ADOS

ADOS ... Attention Deficite Ooooooh Shiny!! (found on Twitter)

Monday, May 11, 2009

No cube or table listed under the selected database in the Excel Data Connection Wizard

Problem: No cube or table listed under the selected database in the Excel Data Connection Wizard.

Solution: In Microsoft Visual Studio set the cube's "Visible" property to "True"; republish the cube

Recently I was trying to connect from a brand new Excel document to a cube I had created in Analysis Services.

Where the problem is: In Excel 2007...
  • Select the "Data" ribbon
  • Select "From Other Sources"
  • Select "From Analysis Services"
  • The "Data Connection Wizard" opens up
  • On the "Connect to Database Server" pane enter your server name
  • Click "Next"
  • The "Select a Database and Table" pane displays
  • Select your database from the "Select the database that contains the data you want"
  • "Connect to a specific cube or table" should be checked
  • No cube or table shows up
The solution:
  • Open your Analysis Services cube project in Microsoft Visual Studio
  • In the "Solution Explorer" double click on your cube ("MyCube" for example)
  • The "MyCube.cube" tab opens up
  • In the "Measures" pane (or "Dimensions" pane, or...) right click on your cube (the root node) and select "Properties"
  • On the "Properties" pane set "Visible=True"
  • Republish the cube
Good luck!

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Google Reader Wish List

Here are some features I'd like to see added to Google Reader:

1. Ability to easily read one group: Actually this was recently added. The GUI was changed a bit -- a 'subscriptions' drop down was added from which you can easily select just one group (prior to that you had to navigate through the GUI a bit; and even then it wasn't quite clear what group you were reading).

2. A count of new messages in a group, since I last read the group: I'd like to have someway of easily seeing (in the 'subscriptions' drop down panel, perferrably) a count of new messages (since I last viewed the group).

3. (Similar to 2) A count of starred messages in a group: This, too, preferrably in the 'subscriptions' drop down panel.