BlueFire Data Solutions

The folks at Analytical Labs have released Saiku 2.0 GA!

Overview of the May 3rd 2011 North Carolina Pentaho User Group Meeting.

So I recently had a situation where I needed to run the same transformation over multiple database shards, which turns out to be relatively easy to do with the right mix of transformations and jobs. This post will walk through the steps needed so you can do the same thing. Go ahead and download the [… Read More]

My apologies for being away – things have been rather hectic. Anyway, today marks a new evolution to the site. I’ve cleaned up the site and now have set up the capability to show code, which has been one of the things keeping me from posting. Now that that is set up, I’ll be catching [… Read More]

So today marked the culimnation of my first webinar production experience.  Over a week of preping off and on for a 45 minute conference (of which my part was about 15 mintues) sure made for a fun time.  I haven’t listened to the recording yet, however I think it went well overall.  Now if only [… Read More]

Seeing that there’s been interest with Magento, I figured I would write up my experiences since the last time I published about it. First off, Magento does a fairly good job about documenting the basics about the program.  As I found out last time, it will take a bit of digging to get into super-specific [… Read More]

Well, I’m back with a quick update – I’m close to getting ready to finish my site overhaul.  Not been able to work on the site or post in a while – it’s been real busy around here, heh. I’m also planning on getting those tutorials up soon as well.  If only for more hours [… Read More]

Well, if anyone is reading this allow me to say, welcome! Let me start off by explaining a bit about why I’m blogging here, what BlueFire is about, etc etc. My name is Alex, and I am the founder of BlueFire Data Solutions. There’s still a lot of development going on with the rest of [… Read More]