Rich Pictures of End User requirements

Enable communication through pictures is one powerful tool I always use when I have the option. I have found this site that has helped me to open my vision about what I can offer: http://systems.open.ac.uk/materials/T552/ I’m now focused on end-user requirements, based in their challenges. These pictures are helping me a lot for align client … Read more

Playing with Joomla

Somethings to remind when using Joomla. 1.- problem: I want to hide some componets The default login form in Joomla is managed through a built-in module called Login Form. To enable/disable this module, you have to go to the Joomla admin area > Extensions > Module Manager. 🙂 2.- problem: I cannot change global parameters … Read more

Sugar CRM configuring e-mail settings

During the configuration of Sugar CRM 6.0.3 I find one problem. I have created one user and after enter all information in the document.I click on “Reset Password”. After that, this message is shown: Please check: -SMTP Server URL and Port -SMTP Username and SMTP Password -Recipient Email Address -Your server status I have reviewed … Read more

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Some reading for my summer time: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms There are interesting details that helped me to understand the position of Microsoft in this area and the evolution Business Objects is taking. Open source solutions as Pentaho and Jaspersoft are mentioned but not ranked becuase they do not reach the minimum … Read more

Targeted Risk Assessment (TAR)

Targeted Risk Assessment (TAR), that offers an integrated tool that helps on: Worker Exposure, Consumer Exposure, Environmental Exposure. I have downloaded the first one (Worker Exposure), it’s an Excel spreadsheet!! It allows the user to calculate predictions for inhalatory and dermal exposure (Tier 1 level) for the benefit of performing Chemical Safety Assessments. It’s very … Read more

CHESAR, CHEmical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool

Original link http://chesar.echa.europa.eu/home Chesar is a tool developed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which aims to help companies carry out their Chemical Safety Assessments (CSA) and prepare their Chemical Safety Reports (CSR). For this purpose the principles relating to chemical safety assessments as described in the “Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment” … Read more

Pentaho & BusinessObjects

Somebody told me that try to compare both tools. I don’t know how to compare Pentaho with BusinessObjects, I think that is not an useful exercise, you can find tons of functional comparatives. From my modest knowledge, Pentaho is this type of open source tools that have an excellent growth and that reachs a level … Read more

Yahoo pipes & JSON

I have returned to use the yahoo pipes, and I have discovered an strange blue RSS blue icon. It’s a JSON feed !!! I don’t know what is the yahoo strategy with this application, but yahoo has published some applications in a new panel of my e-mail but pipes is not shown there 🙁 Anyway, … Read more