While working with time series charts in SQL Server Reporting Services, I ran across a particular need to show cumulative aggregation of income over time by fiscal year. Yup, that’s a mouthful eh? I initially thought great, I’ll just make the Y-axis value be the running total of the !Fields:Total.Value for the fiscal year series grouping using the RunningValue() function. This worked great with the exception of the current fiscal year. Read the rest of this entry »
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The numbers are finally in and DrupalCon DC was not only a success as touted by many who attended but also from a business standpoint.
According to the post “DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability | DrupalCon DC.”, the event made the Drupal Association $185,780.69 after all was said and done.
A total of 1,422 people attended the Drupalcon DC event in many of 109 sessions and apparently over 100 BOF (birds of a feather) gatherings. I must say, this is impressive.
One thing I really liked hearing about was the association is looking what the focus of future DrupalCons will be. Personally, I see a good business case to slowly start working in some non-developer focused tracks. While DrupalCon is a developer event, more “users” of Drupal are non-developers, or folks that maybe cross certain lines between developer and non-developer.
Perhaps it is time to look at a business track showing the business users how things can get done with Drupal to solve business needs. We’ll be listening to see where the association goes with their thoughts on the subject. Of course, if you are likewise inclined, let the association know. Remember, “silence is acceptance”.
Of course, who can not forget the myriad of sponsors, volunteers and gracious hearts that continue to make DrupalCon what is has become. This is still the heart of Drupal. Don’t lose it! 
Blessings
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Sample Income over Time (Current + Historical) where a tooltip on datapoints would be useful.
Wow. Big disappointment for me today. I’ve been hitting my head against a brick wall for the last 1.5 hrs trying to find the Tooltip property in a Dundas Chart for Reporting Services object for each series data point.
Seemed like a simple request since the built in Chart object in SSRS 2008 has a marker tooltip property. Well boys and girls, the short answer is “no, you can’t.”
According to this article, Dundas is stating that the limitation is on Microsoft and affects all custom reporting objects.
Boy, that’s not how I anticipated ending my day after our organization shelled out for the Dundas dashboard bundle. Might just have to go back to the Microsoft chart control for some reports. Disappointing to say the least.
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Well, more breaking news out of DrupalCon DC this afternoon. According to various Tweets from #drupalcon as well as a this ZDNet blog post, Acquia today named Thomas Erickson as its new CEO.
Erickson, who was already on the Acquia board is reported as saying “this is still Dries’ (Buytaert) company. We’re going to follow Dries’ strategy about making Drupal more successful.”
Were sure more great stuff is about to come out of DrupalCon. Know something? Want to share something from DrupalCon? Let us know, we’ll help you get the word out.
Blessings.
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Thanks to the great folks helping put DrupalCon DC on right now. Less than 8 hours into DrupalCon DC 2009 and they already have 3 session video up. You folks rock!
I’ll work on compiling a list of the session videos below. Come back for updates.
DrupalCon DC 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – drupalcon
DrupalCon 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – Recorded by Robert Nelson Vance of proVanceTek LLC (http://provancetek.com/)
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