http://www.crystalblogger.com Just blogging about Crystal Reports and Business Intelligence Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:49:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, the dust sure gets thick when there isn't any movement.  Well I am to blame for that.  I hope this is the start of a rekindled relationship with my blog and to any followers that remain. I wanted to let you know that I will be speaking at the 2011 ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2011/09/29/2011-bouc-in-orlando/ ASUG Texas-Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter Meeting Date: Friday, February 18, 2011 Time: 8:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m. CST Location: Plano Centre 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway Plano, TX 75074 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Register today for the ASUG Texas-Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting on Friday, February 18, 2011. Don't miss your chance to learn from the real experience of ASUG members in ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2011/02/13/asug-dfw-local-user-group-meeting-feb-18-2011/ Time Topic Speaker 8:15 am – 9:00 am Registration, Coffee, and Vendor Fair – Lobby 9:00 am– 9:40 am ASUG Chapter Update and Introductions – (Main Room) An update on what’s going on in our local chapter and our National Organization Blake Whitaker, Bell Helicopter ASUG Chapter Chair 9:40 am – 10:05 am Keynote – SAP In-Memory Computing and ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2011/02/13/dfw-local-user-group-agenda-feb-18-2011/ Here I am at the end of the Reportapalooza journey, a bit melancholy, a bit relieved, but overall better for having done it. It's hard to believe that the journey began back in mid August and now we are fast approaching Thanksgiving. Our last task was to blog about one of ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/11/11/reporting-remix-3/ The weeks seem to be blending into each other. It seems like it was just yesterday when I put up my last post. Well it was a week ago today and this is what I have learned. Web Service Connection: I want to say that the more I learn, the less I ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/11/04/reporting-remix-2/ At its basic level a Dashboard is a visual presentation of summarized data. A Dashboard becomes dated or irrelevant if you can't do two things. Keep data current and clearly represent it. My journey this week ended with a conference call I had with the CEO of Centigon Solutions, ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/10/29/79/ For the fourth journey we the five Reportapalooza experts were asked to choose a Nonprofit organization from among several that wanted to have a Dashboard created for them. As I read through the summaries I was struck by one in particular because the idea of a nonprofit for nonprofit had ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/10/24/npower-pa-enabling-nonprofits-through-technology/ As you know we were tasked with creating two short Crystal Reports how-to videos. I was not apprehensive about my topics, it was the fact that I had to record and edit my own video that had me worried. I had never used any video editing software; in fact ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/09/20/and-thats-a-wrap/ These past two weeks have been crazy. We found out Sunday afternoon Aug 22 what Dashboard we were going to create. Mine was the Internet Usage Dashboard and it was due by Aug 27. Small problem was that I had already planned a vacation and was leaving Aug ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/09/03/the-dust-has-settled-for-the-dashboard-challenge/ Well the week got of to a running start. We were Emailed Sunday what our Dashboard assignments were. Mine is the Internet Dashboard. I feel the pressure because this is the Dashboard idea that received the most votes. So here is what is going on behind the scenes. We ... http://www.crystalblogger.com/2010/08/25/week-two-of-reportapalooza-starts/