I noticed that Deep Zoom Composer writes DZIs with a namespace of
http://schemas.microsoft.com/deepzoom/2009
However the official documentation and the only available schema refer to
http://schemas.microsoft.com/deepzoom/2008
XML dictates I cannot treat them as equivalent, although they seem to be. So does anyone know if there is a difference and even better, can point to some documentation?
Talking with the program manager for Seadragon at that time, he believes the only thing that was added was an optional extra tag to support Microsoft's Smooth Streaming server feature. If you're not using Smooth Streaming, the 2008 schema is identical to the 2009 one.
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I started working with PostGIS in Action. The book shows a bunch of neat graphics created from various queries, but there is no mention of how to get these graphics to show up. The queries are working fine.
All of the tutorials I have found online appear outdated, suggesting, for example, to install plugins that are no longer available. I know I'm missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it would be.
I'm using Windows 7, PostgreSQL 9.3, PostGIS 2.1.
UPDATE
Thanks a lot guys. I settled on QGIS and it works as promised. So hard to pick either answer as they are both brilliant and informative.
There is no built-in GUI for Postgis queries. You have a number of options:
Connect to Postgis directly from QGIS or other GIS package that supports direct connections.
Use ogr2ogr utility to convert to another format such as shp or kml and use ArcGIS, Google Earth, etc to visualize the results.
Write the results out as WKT (well-known text) or GeoJSON and load them into a web mapping library such as OpenLayers. There is an example of a WKT reader here: OpenLayers WKT example. GeoJSON is a format that has gained a lot of traction, as it is very amenable to manipulation in Javascript and hence mapping libraries such as OpenLayers or Leaflet.
If you decide to use the ogr2ogr route, here is a cheat sheet provided by the authors of the Postgis book: http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet
I am sure there are other options, but these are the ones that sprung to mind.
PostGIS has no GUI, it's a database extension and so it's purely backend.
If you want graphicals you need a 3rd party gis application to do that. Some worth trying might be:
QGIS - probably the most popular FLOSS gis application
OpenJUMP - a much simpler although quite limited FLOSS
ArcGIS - most advanced and most expensive
Your book probably has a note explaining where the screenshots come from, try searching towards the back of the book.
I'm beginning to learn MDX and OLAP databases and was wondering if there's an extension for SSMS that anyone knows about to help writing MDX. Because of some nerve damage to my right hand it wears my right-most two fingers out to hit all the brackets constantly. I'm learning for something that could recognize the measure groups and dimension names and automatically wrap them in the brakcets.
Unfortunately, there is no Intellisense support for MDX in SQL Server 2008 although many people would like to have it and Google finds very few third-party tools. MDX Studio is often mentioned very positively and is still available although it's no longer maintained.
According to MSDN, there is Intellisense for MDX in SQL Server 2012.
But I know very little about MDX so hopefully someone with more hands-on experience may have some ideas.
You can try a third-party tool MDXHelper (www.mdx-helper.com) which is an IDE to Write, Analyze, Tuning, Debug MDX efficiently, and it has the following 5 keys features:
1.Code auto-completion
2.Code snippet library
3.Measure definition & reassignment formula collection
4.SQL for depended basic measure(s)
5.MDX Profile collection parallel
MDXHelper
Can someone recommend a source control product that does all of the following:
Seamless integration into VS 2008 Pro
Will allow me to create different "editions" of a program (like "express" and "pro") - maybe with branching?
Will allow me to track changes for specific client requests. Say I have four clients, 2 on express, 2 on pro. I would be able to create specific, customized changes for all clients while still maintaining a singular codebase.
I'm not sure if something like VisualSVN can handle this, but there must be a product out there.
Virtually every source control will satisfy the #2 and #3 requirement with branches.
For #1 it's more tricky. If you really want a Seamless integration (capital S) then Team Foundation Server is your only choice. (It's very expensive)
Otherwise virtually all the major source control systems will have some sort of VS plugin, but the plugin usually doesn't work very well.
The two most popular free source control systems are:
Subversion
git
The best way to create different additions of your software using the same code in all of the different versions it to use pre-processor directives to conditionally compile your software based of flags that you set.
For information on conditional compilation please see the following links:
.NET: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9ae6e432%28VS.71%29.aspx
Java: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2005/01/how_to_do_condi_1.html
C++: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Cplusplus/C-plus-plus-Preprocessor-The-Code-in-the-Middle/3/
I hope this answers your question I use this alot when developing different version of applications for different platforms.
An example of this is an application that I developed in c# for both a server and mobile device implementation. Each had different ways of calling functions in .NET libraries but the logic was the same so I used preprocessor conditional compilation to compile to correct code for each platform but leave the logic intact.
From experience you only need integration with Visual Studio if you need to check out the file before editing it (a-la SourceSafe) and the file is read-only until then.
Having used SourceSafe I went on to using SVN and absolutely never looked back. Then I switched to git and again never looked back on SVN or Sourcesafe.
I can't comment on Team Foundation source control or Mercurial, I've never used those. At this stage I would recommend git over SVN as it's more suited to working with a single source tree that has minor changes between lots of branches. You can do the same thing with SVN but found the process of switching the working copy to another process painful.
Team Foundation Server provides the best seamless integration to VS 2008, but of course its not free (i agree that its very expensive)
have you tried using AnkhSVN? its got a pretty good integration for VS 2008 and SVN. so far it gives me the VS-SVN integration that I need, so you might want to check it and see if it fits your needs.
you can use TortoiseSVN, but I suggest installing CollabNet's SVN server, because AnkhSVN integrates seamlessly with it, plus you dont have to worry about major installations
It's only three months until VS 2010 is in final release (March 22, 2010). For MSDN subscribers, TFS will be integrated into Visual Studio (all levels except Express). MSDN subscriptions that include Visual Studio (any level) will include TFS with a one-seat license. TFS 2010 will run on Vista or Windows 7. SharePoint is no longer required, but you still need it if you want 100% of TFS features, like reporting.
It's all available now in beta; I'm running TFS on my laptop.
Is there a really good free tool for BugZilla reporting? I am finding the default search options on the web interface far too limiting. My biggest issue is with the lack of Order By options (only 1 field at a time, and a very limited set of fields to choose from). I have done some Google searches, but I can't find any good free BugZilla reporting tools.
If there isn't one, can someone please point me to an example on how to access the BugZilla web services? If I can get the BugZilla data, then I can easily build my own reports that will better meet our needs.
Take a look at this: http://www.faqs.org/docs/bugzilla/dbdoc.html
Use this database schema for reference: faqs.org/docs/bugzilla/dbschema.html
If you need a web-interface, use your favorite dynamic website scripting language that can access MySQL databases (say PHP)...
Simple-ish Tutorial: freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/4
PHP MySQL API Reference: php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
Then use SQL queries such as:
"SELECT * FROM bugs WHERE WHERE bug_status != 'RESOLVED' ORDER BY creation_ts ASC, votes DESC LIMIT 50"
which lists first 50 entries of unresolved bugs ordered first ascending creation time then descending by number of votes.
I have used this in the past and have liked it a lot: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bugzilla_Reports
You can also consider other tool eg mantis
(http://www.mantisbt.org/)
I've personally switched from Bugzilla into Mantis and installed some plugins (http://deboutv.free.fr/mantis/) and found this more comfortable
If you are a Java user, you might want to check out Mylyn for eclipse. This is integrates a task-driven development approach into eclipse.
With that, you can raise bugs, tie together SVN changes and bugs, and hide classes that are not relevant to fixing bugs, etc. It's a bit involved to get started with, but quite powerful.
It also comes with a connector for BugZilla. See this introductory article for an example.
If you don't use eclipse, but you do use Java, then note that since Mylyn is open-source, you might want to look at the source code of the Mylyn BugZilla connector for how they do their work.
Good luck.
You can try Deskzilla (http://deskzilla.com/) - it is a multi-platform desktop client for Bugzilla with Outlook-like interface, rich reporting and filtering capabilities, offline work, drag-n-drop, etc. It's a commercial product, but if you're working on an Open Source project you can use it for free.
AFAIK Bugzilla uses MySQL database for storing data. So probably you can connect with some visual db manager (plenty of it exists, see Toad Data Modeler, DbVisualizer) and try do do some sql work...
There is a list of some add-ons (free and commercial) listed on the Buzilla addons wiki.
If you are a Windows user, MyZilla is a possible option.
Otherwise, to work toward your own, see the Bugzilla API documentation, which, in a way, includes how to retrieve the current schema (Bugzilla::DB::Schema), and Bugzilla::WebService.
Netbeans also has Bugzilla integration (I haven't tried it...).
I have analized a bunch of bug tracking tools.
You can try track or mantis, because bugzilla is very unfriendly about reporting.
Mantis
Mantis can export data in excel: all the graphic you need can be generated by that sheet.
For more information take a look to my blog:
http://gioorgi.com/2008/bug-tracking-mantis/
Anyway, Track is used a lot more, so for sake of completeness I should cite it:
Track
Pros:
Can Also work with an embedded database (using sqlite).
Easy to setup and use.
Cons:
Feature are too much, and aims to be also a CMS to some extend.
Take a look to:
http://gioorgi.com/2008/bug-tracking-trac/
Since Bugzilla can be installed on your own server, I presume the simplest way is to do that and play with the databases it creates ("Bugzilla supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle as database servers"). The documentation also says you can modify the templates as you like.
Otherwise one could try paid support or some other bug trackers.
I use this bookmarklet and like how it searches right with the strings entered in the location bar like smart search. It lets you quickly search bugzilla or jump to a bug number via Bugzilla Quicksearch, and is IE6+, Moz, Op7+ compatible.
Its companions on the same page can be used to refine or help with bug search/report, e.g. collect buglinks (queries bugzilla to show a list of bugs linked to from the current page),ord buglinkify (turns all numbers on the page into bug links).
what is the best place to start learning about SQL Server 2005 Integration services?
I'm looking for links for setup and tutorials on how to get started. I've read I need a toolkit called SSIS designer however I haven't been able to find it on the SQL Server Enterprise ed dvd nor online anywhere. I did come across some links in various forums but they are now broken.
What version of SQL Server are you using? If you're using SQL Server 2000, then you're out of luck: SSIS didn't exist back then, and you don't want to know what did.
SSIS is sufficiently rich and complicated that I would not recommend a "tutorial". I'm afraid I have to recommend you read a book (and follow the exercises!). The one that taught me was Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Integration Services Step by Step.
You want to install Business Intelligence Studio from the SQL Server DVD. That installs Visual Studio if you didn't already have it, and also installs the templates and tools necessary to develop in SSIS.
I've found lots of good info at SSIS Junkie (http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/).
And MS has some interesting web casts.
I liked the well written tutorial at http://www.accelebrate.com/sql_training/ssis_tutorial.htm
give it a try.
Once you get past the basics, this tutorial/example shows how to use looping, variables and expressions to do some cool stuff: http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/95385/pg/3/3.html
The example is aimed at administration and monitoring, but can be applied to many things.
Looks like it's subscriber only now, but you can get the source.
In a nutshell, you store servernames is a table, put them in an 'object' variable and then loop through them performing whatever actions you'd like.
Your connection to 'source server' changes based on expressions you define in the properties window.
I'd suggest you look at SQLIS.com, it's a great site written by some SSIS experts. There are a number of blogs, and we have some articles at SQLServerCentral.com, though not sure we have a good "get started" series.
PragmaticWorks does a lot of SSIS and I've started to see some details on their blog about the various tasks.
IF you are working on a Business Intelligence project I suggest the white-papers from www.SQLBI.com for reference. If you understand the basic termonology of standard BI practicies, this will present a good set of best practices. It may be a little complex though if you are just starting out.
I have also found the video training provided by vconferenceonline/SSWUG (http://www.vconferenceonline.com/shows/summer09/uvc/sessions.asp?id=2) to be very useful. Not free - but relatively cheap.