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Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:12 PM

WebTrends Account Setup and Configuration

I got my WebTrends Account Welcome E-mail with all of the information needed to get connected and start working with the On Demand Analytics Web Application. At some point I want to get a Visitor Intelligence Cube/OLAP Reporting Web Application setup
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:05 AM

A Renaming - Rogue, Mercenary?

I got to thinking about my work patterns and what I've been getting accomplished.  It far exceeds what I thought I would be remotely doing 10 years ago, even 5 years ago I've blown away my wildest "reasonable" expectations of the future.  In
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:27 PM

Crunch Week

So this week has been a HARD CORE CRUNCH WEEK.  Not only did I have a decent allotment of work to complete at WebTrends but I also had relatives visit, another project that I'm trying to finish up kick in, and in addition to all that a April 2nd
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:15 PM

Forget SQL Management Studio, Stick to BIDS

Ok, so lately there has been a decent bit of frustration from our crew about how to deploy a Analysis Services Project from BIDS to XMLA without going into SQL Management Studio and going through that whole mess.  Well my fellow coworker Xander got
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Monday, December 03, 2007 9:04 AM

CodePlex Time

Over the weekend I made several attempts to download the BlogEngine on CodePlex by Mads Kristenson several times.  The problem, was that the site kept timing out.  I'm not sure if the local Comcast Service was having another issue or if the
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:53 PM

Analysis Services Performance Testing and Artsy Things

I'm on a couple new quests as of this week.  One is to find a decent way to performance test SSAS without buying or putting in place large servers similar to what would be used in a production environment.  The second is to figure out how to have JavaScript
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:18 PM

10-Second Usability

I've always know there had to be some rule or logic that someone has laid out for usability.  Especially from a marketing perspective.  Recently I took to reading a few pages of Web Analytics Demystified by Eric T. Peterson.  While reading through the
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:53 PM

Keeping Up With Web Analytics

More info on keeping up with the various aspects of the software industry.  Something, especially with the new job at WebTrends, that takes a decent amount of effort keeping up with is Web Analytics.  One major site that I can see myself reading is the
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:03 PM

BI/OLAP Training Day #1

Yesterday I attended Maxamine Training as part of my initiation at WebTrends.  Maxamine is a web site scanner for finding tags, JavaScript, and other assorted objects within a web application/site.  The application tool and software is a client application
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Friday, October 19, 2007 4:43 PM

Web Analytics Grasped, Week One Wrap Up

Web analytics are derived in two primary ways, so far (more on this later), JavaScript tags and web server log files.  This is pretty much the universal way that web statistics are collected.  There are dozens of books out there that cover this
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:40 PM

Web Analytics

It is day #3 at the new position and I've learned a TON about the Web Analytics field so far.  I've also learned a ton about the WebTrends product and still have a lot more to cover.  Since my 3 readers might not have a huge understanding
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:40 AM

First Days at WebTrends

Day two is in full swing at this time.  I've been reading documentation, getting lined up on the training schedule for multiple classes, and oriented to my new business home and fellow coworkers.  Everything has been top notch. When I arrived
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:04 PM

WebTrends Here I Come!

I've officially signed the paperwork this morning!  I can now announce that I will be joining WebTrends in downtown Portland on October the 15th!  I'll be working as a business intelligence analyst and looking forward to working on their various
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