Datalytyx Tube Series #3: Using the tXMLMap component in Talend
In the previous blog we retrieved an XML response from a TFL web service to provide the status of the underground lines. In this blog, we are going to use a tXMLMap in Talend to extract the information we want from the XML response. Where were we? Following on from...
Fixing a broken custom ASP.Net Form
Here's a quick solution to a small but problematic issue we experienced recently. One of our customers applied a Cumulative Update to SharePoint 2013 SP1. The custom ASP.Net form in SharePoint that we had created then stopped working directly as a result. Here's how...
Generating realistic network jitter values in Talend
Here's a quick tip for those working with Talend to create a job that performs a number of calculations on a set of network data. Say that your calculations are reliant on jitter, but you are not provided with any values; you need to create these yourself and these...
Benefits of using Docker with Talend
If you need to use VM's quite often, perhaps mostly for testing or a particular software that happens to be Linux-based, then you need to take a look at Docker. Docker is the future standard in virtualization and the way you should be testing/developing. Microsoft,...
How to merge text files without knowing the schema
Introduction Sometimes you need to merge files from a source/sources into a single file. Perhaps weekly reports into a single monthly report. Or some log files retrieved from an FTP store that you wish to aggregate together into a single file for storage or further...
Talend Studio: Tips and Tricks (Part 4 – Big Data Edition)
Introduction Talend Studio provides a great number of configuration tools for Hadoop Clusters. It also gives you the ability to run Spark jobs on your local environment. However, you might still run into issues running code in distributed mode across the entire...
How to retrieve users from multiple SharePoint Groups using K2
Here's a very quick how-to for those developers using K2 who may find themselves required to extract users (such as Administrators) from multiple SharePoint groups. An example in which you may need to do this is if a developer is required to display a list of users to...
Datalytyx Tube Series #2: Using tRestClient in Talend
Welcome to the Datalytyx Tube Series! This is part 1 of the Datalytyx Tube Series. If you have not already read the introduction, you can find it via this link: Datalytyx Tube Series #1: Exploring the London Underground. In this blog article, we will take a look at...
Datalytyx Tube Series #1: Exploring the London Underground
Welcome to the Datalytyx Tube Series! Have you ever wondered how the mobile app on your phone knows when London tube's Central line is suffering from minor delays or that there is a part closure on the Overground network? Well, the very data that drives these mobile...
Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Talend and Stanford CoreNLP
In my previous blog, I showed you how to integrate Stanford CoreNLP with Talend using a simple example. In this post I'll show you how to modify that code in order to make the most of Talend's strengths as a data integration tool. Let's get to it Below is a Talend job...