Today I had a Microstrategy reporting problem: on my report there are two metrics, one is total number of incidents and attribute month; the other is total amount of payments received.They come from two different tables and have no relationship
Some thoughts about WordPress security
In general, WordPress blogs are not considered to contain much sensitive data therefore the default behavior of using user name and password suits most bloggers. However there are cases you want to enhance this default security a bit, below are
WordPress Theme – Spacious part 2
This is another post about theme Spacious. Spacious shortens all posts on front page(excerpt), this makes the front page tidy however I want to control how much to show instead of the default(55 words). Thought there would be an option
Making dynamic menus using Laravel
Laravel is a PHP framework, which offers clean solution to build your website, especially data driven ones(i.e. not static pages, rather the content is retrieved from a back-end database like MySQL) . I’m not going to discuss much about Laravel’s terms, such as
New theme – Spacious
Just discovered this new WordPress theme, Spacious and this is the one I’ve been looking for a long time. It’s beautiful with a lot of features I like: Elegant design, layout and colors Header image(which can be put on header), Carousel(image
Microstrategy derived metrics
I’ve been using Microstrategy for more than a year by now, never used derived metric before until recently discovered the beauty of derived metric. Derived metric, a Microstrategy’s term, I’d rather call it report function. Basically it’s a function that
Microstrategy movingsum
Have been using Microstrategy 9 for a while, had a moving sum problem recently. The customer basically needs moving sum for the past 12 months for each state/branch. Of course the month is based on accounting period, i.e. 1 May
The new trend
There have been a lot of discussions/recommendations telco companies offer minute based billing instead of the current “$” capped plans. Unfortunately it’s never been offered, the reason is simple – they want to make plans appear attractive therefore keep profit
Further discussion about fleet plans
There are suggestions to further discuss fleet plans. Unfortunately there is not much information published on providers website so I can not do a plan-plan comparison like my previous post. What I will discuss below is based on plans offered by
Plans analysis
Further to my previous discussion, telco companies nowadays use increment and so-called cap plans to promote their margin. Regardless of what “included value” is, you should look at the rates carefully to avoid traps. Just for demonstration purpose, I analysed 4 low end