December 2011 - Posts

• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏

  I have been fiddling about with Data Explorer some more and have built an interesting little mashup that enables one to discover the number of Google Reader subscribers to each RSS feed on SQLBlog.com . Before I show you how its built I'll whet your appetite Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011 9:29 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer

• ExcelMashup.com now has a dedicated forum

  Five days ago I published a fairly scathing attack on the folks that built ExcelMashup.com due to their poor support for folks that wanted to provide feedback. Well, credit where credit is due, they have been pretty quick to respond as I have been informed Read More... Posted Monday, December 19, 2011 11:42 AM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: ExcelMashup

• Thoughts on ExcelMashup.com (and a rant)

  Microsoft last week made available a new website called ExcelMashup.com and Chris Webb tweeted me exclaiming: "Excel Mashup: http://bit.ly/uvvFxy - so, @ jamiet , we've got the Excel Services API but no OData unfortunately...?" If you have followed Chris' Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:46 PM by jamiet | 12 Comments Filed under: ExcelMashup

• Data Explorer Feedback part 1

  Earlier today I posted Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list in which I explained that I have been using Data Explorer for a few weeks now. In that time I have been compiling some feedback for the Data Explorer product team which I was going Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:56 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer

• Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list

  Yesterday the public availability of Data Explorer, a new data mashup tool from the SQL Server team, was announced at Announcing the Labs release of Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” . Upon seeing the first public demos of Data Explorer at SQL Pass 2011 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:40 PM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer, twitter