by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jan 10, 2023 | dashdb, DB2, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, Python
Generated PowerPoint slide with Db2 dataHow did you spend the holidays? I had some days off and then used the last day of vacation for some fun programming. Last year, I wanted to test the python-pptx package, but couldn't find time. So I used my "fun day" to generate...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 25, 2022 | analytics, data in action, DB2, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, jdbc, notebook
United: Db2 and ZeppelinIf you followed my blog, you may have noticed that I wrote about Db2 and about Zeppelins in the past - but not together. Today, I am going to discuss how I configured a JDBC interpreter in an Apache Zeppelin notebook to connect to a Db2 on...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 7, 2022 | conference, DB2, dedug, fun, IBM, idug, IT, user group
"IDUG 2023 EMEA will be in"The IDUG 2022 EMEA Db2 Tech Conference is over. What a week it was! Hard work, not much sleep, technical education, in-person networking, fun, and much more. After getting home, I needed two days and especially the nights to recharge, then...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Mar 16, 2022 | bluemix, cloudfoundry, fun, github, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, migration
"Bring Your Own Community"About seven years ago, I started to work with, then blog about Bluemix and Cloud Foundry. Not my first, but one of the first posts is titled "Some fun with Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, Python, JSON and the Weather". Reading that article again I...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 24, 2021 | big data, data in action, fun, ibmcloud, IT, scripting
Traffic for event streamsRecently, I worked with IBM Cloud Event Streams which is a message bus built with Apache Kafka. I was looking for a simple command-line tool to test my Event Streams instance and to stream access logs into it. That's when I ran into kcat...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 18, 2021 | administration, big data, data in action, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, notebook, Python, tools
Building a data lake the serverless wayThis fall, I started another side project. It involves mobility data and its analysis and visualization. As first step and still ongoing, I am building up a data lake (and maybe integrating it into a data fabric). For that, I...
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