Part II of my Business/Enterprise Intelligence Series, check out part 1. In the previous part of this ongoing series of getting the business intelligence and analytics pieces of the enterprise intelligence world figure out, I hit on the first step of the entire process. Collection of available data points. Not the desired data points, nice... Continue reading →

IE6/Windows XP Microsoft wants users to give up IE6 & Windows XP. I want users to give up IE6 & XP. Please, please, please give those things up. IE6 of course more than XP. With what Windows 7 is though, go ahead, get on the bandwagon. Win XP is moving the way of Win98/95 finally... Continue reading →

I recently had to do some simple encryption and decryption for password storage. I wanted to document this so a blog entry seemed in order. So without any yammering here’s the simple class I created. public static class EncryptionHelper { private const string CryptographyKey = "CryptKey"; // The Initialization Vector for the DES encryption routine... Continue reading →

Where is the business intelligence? This blog entry may instigate just a bit. It will also be a little long for a blog entry. You've been warned. I suppose though, if you know me & the work I do, that is not really something new. I see something wrong, broken, or otherwise and I am... Continue reading →

On Tuesday the 12th, from 6-8:30pm, make sure to get yourself to downtown Portland to the Webtrends Office. Not only will you get to enjoy the awesome views from the 16th floor you’ll be treated to awesome information from the upcoming speaker. Who is the speaker? Mike Downey is a Director of Platform Evangelism at... Continue reading →