Accessories by the famous Italian brand Marni conquer more and more fans in all over the world. It is quite difficult to say why these simple bags arouse so much delight – probably this is Consuelo Castiglioni’s (the chief designer of Marni) talent to turn simple accessory into something very pretty, very elegant, very beautiful and very stylish handbag. Once you see bags from the new Marni collection you won’t forget them and you will definitely want to have one in your wardrobe. Their design is very simple and very laconic: a girl with such a bag looks even more feminine, tender and charming.

Castiglioni always chooses the most beautiful colors for her collections: chocolate brown, salmon-pink, red, beige. These colors are not combined in design of the bags, the designer prefers to create bags where only one color dominates.

The bags are very simply shaped. Some of them look more like evening bags (little rectangular “breifcases”), while others look like retro bags (these are purse – shaped bags that are made out of soft leather).

Perforation that became the main decoration of accessories from the Marni spring-summer collection again dominates. Marni again offers bags with perforation, however, this time the bags look simpler and more laconic than those that are already sold in shops.

If you like original Marni bags, than, no doubt you will like replica bags Marni. Replica bags Marni will amaze you by their great characteristics. Do you want your bag to be beautiful? Replica bags Marni are very beautiful. Do you want your bag to be made out of a high quality material? Replica bags Marni are made out of high quality materials. Do you want your bag to be accessibly priced? Replica bags Marni are very accessibly priced. Replica bags Marni are bags of your dream, you will like them and you will find among them the bag that will become one of your favorite accessories.

There is no man who does not like car and watches. This is probably what designers of Cartier thought when they were pondering over what timepiece to invent next. The Cartier Roadster Automatic was the result of such meditations. Their expectations were brilliantly realized – the timepiece turned to be a fail-safe solution and one of the most popular Cartier watch models.
The timepiece resembles in many respects different car parts. The case of the Cartier Roadster Automatic was designed to resemble a steering wheel. The dial of the timepiece looks like the radiator grille of an old-fashioned sports car. The four screws connecting the inner case of a watch to the outer resemble headlights. In addition to this, the crown on the right side of the case is shaped like a hubcap.
Like a car, the Cartier Roadster Automatic is multifunctional. The watch shows the date, in addition to traditional timekeeping. The solid construction of the stainless steel case and bracelet make it as reliable a first-class automobile.
The watch is a hit with gentlemen who like fashion, good cars and fine watches. Tobey Maguire already owns one, and Edward Burns was so fascinated with the timepiece that he wore it in his movie “Confidence”. James Gandolfini from “The Sopranos” also sports the Cartier Roadster Automatic. Obviously, the watch has a masculine essence about it that is very difficult to resist.

Replica Jacob Co is a unique watch brand that is making news in the world of fashion. It is a very wonderful brand that could be used by anybody all over the world. One of it major models is the Replica Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit.
The Basic Features
Replica Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit is the pseudo copy of the original brand which is the handiwork of the famous watch dealer known as Jacob Arabo who built the famous Jacob Co company in the US. Till date, the Jacob watch brand has remained the best in the fashion world.
The Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit replica watch is the carbon copy of the original brand in every sense. It has all the wonderful features of the original brand. Beginning from the facial region, the Replica Jacob Co Playboy has the wonderful logo of the Jacob Co company. The facial glass is also made with the lustrous mineral gemstone that is very transparent.
The Replica Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit is well known for its efficiency in time regulation. It has wonderful dials and powerful chronograph that make them keep to appropriate time.
The most important feature of the Replica Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit is the wonderful 5 time zones it normally comes with. The Replica Jacob Co allows the user to know what says the time in various countries of the world at the same time.
The Replica Jacob Co Playboy Rabbit is very affordable in various fashion shops online and fashion boutiques all over the world.
Finally, the Replica Jacob Rabbit is very durable in every way. It has quality second hand value as the watch could be re-sold after so many years of use by the person who uses it.

When you purchase Rolex Submariner replica watches you are buying one of the hottest items in sale in today’s marketplace. These Rolex replica watches are such convincing remakes of the original that people are getting swept away in their praise for them. You only have to surf the web for a few minutes before you come across happy customers offering enthusiastic praise for their Rolex replica watches. This is great news for the copy watch makers who can’t really afford to advertise their products as they prefer to pass the savings from advertising onto their customers.
You still often hear criticism about the copy watch industry, but these now originate from those with money to lose in the big-name companies or people who have never even seen what great quality is to be found Rolex Submariner replica. Those who have seen Rolex replica watches and have invested in the product are the ones who should be trusted when it comes to reviews and these people seem to be unanimously happy with their purchase.
In the past buying Rolex replica watches might have been viewed as a bit dodgy and not something to boast about. This has all changed recently with purchasers of Rolex Submariner seeming to want to shout the news from the rooftops. This is a real change in fortunes for the copy watch industry. Much of the praise for this must be given to Rolex replica watches and the improvements that they have brought to the industry. It is timepieces like Rolex Submariner replica watches that is winning people around and making

Copy watches (Are Branded watches too expensive then their copy is the buzz word for you.)
There are many who feel that watches are just to check the time, however they are missing the most important modern purpose of having a watch. It is more for the purpose of looking good that people wear watches and not just to check out the time. Now there are people reading this who would suggest that the best watches are more often than not out of their budget since they are way too expensive for them to afford it. However there is a solution to their problem which is the copy watch or watches which are very close to the original watches available but are not as expensive as the original ones. One may question the quality of the copy watches (Bvlgari replica or replica Breitling) however there is no such concern as care is taken to see to it that they are not of sub-standard quality.
Copy watches is one of the best ways to get a hand on the quality which comes very near to the original branded watches. The best place to go to buy these copy watches is the recognized stores as it would ensure you are not sold a fake one. There are many varieties available which will give you a good collection for different occasions. Many also prefer to use copy watches as gifts on various occasions as marriage, birthdays and many more.
The copy watches are being used by many and thus there is a growth in fake watches industry. It is the best way to fulfill your desire to get the kind of original one. The best thing about these watches is that they are affordable, look like the original ones, of good quality and have attractive designs. All these qualities can’t be easily made available, so make sure you move to your nearest store to get one for yourself or for a loved one.

Hello Pentaho friends,

Pentaho BI Server 3.5 RC1 (***) is released and this great news indeed! There are lots of new features in there, major advances to Pentaho Report designer, Pentaho Metadata, enhancements to Pentaho Dashboard Designer including a new chart editor and an interactive data grid, along with
numerous usability enhancements and maintenance fixes.

Personally I’m particularly pleased with the usability side of the story.  Years ago when I joined Pentaho I rooted for us to pass the “Report ready on my own data in 5 minutes” benchmark. Granted, this is usually not even possible with closed source BI gear but let’s not use that sort of software as a standard, mkay?  Well, I’m happy to report that we’re getting really close to that goal with this 3.5 release.  The auto-generation of Pentaho Metadata models and nifty things like Will Gormans in-line ETL support for CSV file reading really is ground-breaking stuff. (Kettle doing the work, yeah!)  The back-end story is interesting and there is a lot to say about that, but the most important thing is that it makes it easy to create reports on your own data.

On top of that, if you used the old report designer, you wouldn’t recognize the new one, it’s that much better. Take a look at the video series on Youtube on the subject:

It’s amazing to see how much work got cranked out by our team at Pentaho in the last year, not just on the “bling bling” but also solving back-end issues like unified file formats, charting standards, etc.

It’s also interesting to note that Pentaho keeps releasing the majority of its software under an open source license in a time where our direct competitors are doing exactly the oposite.

All this and a few “other things” make me really look forward on the year to come.

Go Pentaho!!

Reporting from Pentaho HQ in Orlando, until next time,

Matt

*** RC1 means “Beta 1″ as in “for evaluation, not production” purposes folks!

Dear Kettle fans,

There isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t find myself amazed by the number of contributions and help that the Pentaho Data Integration project receives in all kinds of forms.  There are people contributing anything from small patches to complete steps, folks helping out others on the forum, writing documentation, writing books, translating PDI, etc.  Without any question, this has been a truly amazing experience, not just for me but for the whole Kettle project.

It’s because of that overwhelmingly positive experience that I’ve always tried to be accessible and in contact with my community in all sorts of possible ways.  And because of that positive vibe I have refrained from commenting on the negative flip side to that story for the longest time.

The problem is really that lately things have been changing.  It’s probably caused in general by an increasing attention to open source and specifically by an increase in popularity of Kettle.  In any case, certain types of people do the following:

• Send me personal email
• IM me on skype/Yahoo!/MSN/AIM/…
• Send me all sorts of messages and questions through the forums
• Ask questions on this blog
• …

Usually it’s a combination of any of the above.  Any time now I expect folks to be sending me direct twitter messages.  The questions are always the same:

I have an urgent Pentaho porblem.  I am incapable of using the forum for some stupid reason and so you have to help me, preferable now or within the next 15 minutes!!!!

This way, the meaning of “The kindness of strangers” becomes more and more like the one from the Nick Cave song.

I’ve just finished reading Linus‘ book “Just for fun” (Thanks again Domingo!) and his approach to the problem of staying in reach for people to contribute code and at the same time allowing yourself to have a life and a job is simple : if it ain’t fun, don’t do it.  Well, the barrage of this sort of questions has stopped being fun for me a long time ago.

As such, I’m going to try this approach: any question that could or should be asked on the forum is from now on silently ignored and deleted from my mailbox.  Any person that is not part of my “community” and that needlessly contacts me over IM gets blocked indefinitely.  And yes, that goes for twitter as well.  Off-topic questions on this blog go to the spam folder as well.  I will simply refuse to spend time on non-interesting topics.

I thought about creating a standard response e-mail, but any sort of replying is simply an encouragement to certain types of people and will only make matter worse. (been there, done that)

I’m sure everyone understands that this is the only way to free up time to work on the real problems at hand.  Thank you for your understanding in any case.

Until next time,

Matt

For some reason, the creation of a mapping to a database table poses a problem for certain people.

This is how it’s done in PDI 3.2.0 or later in the “Table Output” step:

Ogg video available over here

Until next time,
Matt

Dear Kettle fans,

For those of you that are interested, Pentaho is organizing a free community oriented WebEx conference tomorrow (Wed June 17th).  Community oriented means no marketing and open for discussion and feedback.

The goal of the one-hour session is to inform the community of the drastic changes that are taking place in the Pentaho Data Integration product.  More specifically we will cover the challenges that we face with respect to version control of jobs and transformations, central repositories, team development, etc.  We will cover the work we did so far, the choices we made, etc.

Follow this link for more information on the WebEx conference.

See you tomorrow!

Matt

UPDATE : The recording of the session as well as the presentation are available

Simply following the rest of the bloggers on this meme.

Usually I get by with these numbers.  The upload speed is dramatically low though.