Rewarding customer loyalty needs thought. Ask Ben Schlappig.
Ben Schlappig lives in the sky. Using frequent flyer miles, he's become able to live constantly on planes, and in posh hotels all over the world. He stays in the nicest places, and is on first name terms with many of the staff. He never spends more than three days...
How Talend easily converts job execution engines
One of the great functionalities of Talend is the flexibility of developments. There is the additional fact that Talend is quick off the mark to adopt the latest Big Data technologies, specifically open source Apache projects (such as MapReduce, Spark). Talend away...
Talend Basics: Common Errors and Troubleshooting
When building and testing talend jobs there are a number of errors that come up time and time again. For anyone experienced with Talend, these errors are easy to interpret and fix. However, they can be more frustrating for a beginner. Here are some basic...
Datalytyx Tube Series #3: Using the tXMLMap component in Talend
In the previous blog we retrieved an XML response from a TFL web service to provide the status of the underground lines. In this blog, we are going to use a tXMLMap in Talend to extract the information we want from the XML response. Where were we? Following on from...
Fixing a broken custom ASP.Net Form
Here's a quick solution to a small but problematic issue we experienced recently. One of our customers applied a Cumulative Update to SharePoint 2013 SP1. The custom ASP.Net form in SharePoint that we had created then stopped working directly as a result. Here's how...
Generating realistic network jitter values in Talend
Here's a quick tip for those working with Talend to create a job that performs a number of calculations on a set of network data. Say that your calculations are reliant on jitter, but you are not provided with any values; you need to create these yourself and these...
Benefits of using Docker with Talend
If you need to use VM's quite often, perhaps mostly for testing or a particular software that happens to be Linux-based, then you need to take a look at Docker. Docker is the future standard in virtualization and the way you should be testing/developing. Microsoft,...
How to merge text files without knowing the schema
Introduction Sometimes you need to merge files from a source/sources into a single file. Perhaps weekly reports into a single monthly report. Or some log files retrieved from an FTP store that you wish to aggregate together into a single file for storage or further...
Talend Studio: Tips and Tricks (Part 4 – Big Data Edition)
Introduction Talend Studio provides a great number of configuration tools for Hadoop Clusters. It also gives you the ability to run Spark jobs on your local environment. However, you might still run into issues running code in distributed mode across the entire...
How to retrieve users from multiple SharePoint Groups using K2
Here's a very quick how-to for those developers using K2 who may find themselves required to extract users (such as Administrators) from multiple SharePoint groups. An example in which you may need to do this is if a developer is required to display a list of users to...
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