Got Salesforce, Got Mac.. need help. Here you go!
Since we’ve recently switched over to Salesforce.com, which I’m pretty satisfied with. I’ve been searching for tools that help me interact with Salesforce.com via the software on my Mac, such as “Microsoft Entourage 2008″ and my favorite application “Quicksilver”
Simon Fell, over at PocketSoap.com has created a bunch of tools for the Mac user that help integrate Salesforce.com with the stuff you do locally on your Mac.
Maildrop
Maildrop is pretty cool, because it logs you in, and integrates with Entourage. It adds a special menu that provides functionality for Notes, Events, Cases, Contacts, and Email. Most importantly, this video will show you how to setup Maildrop, how to use it, and how Entourage can work with Salesforce.com
Salesforce Plugin for Quicksilver
Simon Fell’s Salesforce.com Plugin for…
Splunk Voted Fastest Growing Company in Silicon Valley
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I’ve just returned from the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards dinner where Splunk was selected as the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley. Delloite, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn Ferry International, Cornish & Carey, Cooley Goward Kronish and adb Insurance Services were the sponsors of this year’s competition and we thank them all for the award. I was joined at the awards dinner by my two co-founders Erik Swan and Rob Das. What a great ride it has been over the past four and a half years. The time has flown by so quickly and it seems like we still have so much more to do. But it was nice at least for one evening to take a breather and enjoy what… |
inputcsv to restrict a search by a list of field values
A customer asked about a complicated search that could be vastly simplified by using inputcsv to input a list of values from a file, a feature added for 3.3.x. It’s documented as an internal search command here:
http://www.splunk.com/doc/latest/user/UnsupportedCommands#inputcsv
We are talking about promoting it to public, so while it says unsupported it does work. Here’s how:
I’ve got events from my webserver for my new domain and I want to see what real hits it’s getting and not my own. They look like this:
66.249.70.86 - - [23/Oct/2008:01:42:21 -0700] "GET /category/admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5158 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
And I’ve gotten some traffic already:
$ ./splunk dispatch 'source=/var/log/apache2/mynewdomain_access_log | stats count'
count
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11424
It’s a standard format that was automatically recognized as sourcetype access_common, so…
All My Regex’s Live in Texas
Put down that O’Reilly book about RegEx, quit googling, and saddle up! Ninja’s going Texas style today with a new video on Regular Expressions, or REGEX. Since Splunk is the ultimate swiss army knife for IT, or rather the “belt” in “blackbelt”, I wanted to share with you how I learned about Regex and some powerful ways to use it in your Splunk server.
I did have an O’Reilly book on Regex, and I have spent a great deal of time on the web looking up how to do regex. Still, I like the easy way, and since i’m a visual guy–to no surprise–I have found some great tools that help me. RegexBuddy by JGSoft and Reggy (free on Google Code). RegexBuddy will…
Splunk Lab in Asia Launches to Develop New IT Search Apps
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The last two weeks I’ve been traveling throughout Asia with our new partners at Systex and the Splunk Asia team. In Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan we met with government agency, high tech manufacturing, insurance, online gaming and managed service provider customers who told us how critical Splunk is to their IT organizations, especially as budgets get even tighter. Systex is now our master distributor covering Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. Systex is an amazing company fueled by Taiwanese entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. The company is part distributor, part reseller, part system integrator and part independent software developer. The 2,900 Systex employees are led by CEO Hilo Chen and COO Frank Lin. Hilo did a stint… |
Cocktail Default Swaps
Woe. Calamity. Bust. As your retirement account swoons and banks once mighty crumble to dust, you might start to wonder what to do at a time like this. Do you flee to cash? Bullion? Or do you reach deep into those pantalones and find your last bit of pocket change to plow into this bottom? (it is the bottom, right?)
No. All of those involve risk. And require far too much effort.
No, you drink you silly Splunker. And while we watch lower Manhattan sink into the Hudson, we will ask is that glass half full, or half empty. For half-empty is the only way I can imagine serving the Market Crash, a delicious and nutritious blend of brown booze.…
Splunking Across the Pond. Welcome Brian Haynes VP EMEA.
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It’s kinda a funny story and although it seems so long ago it was just 18 months ago. I was traveling in Europe starting to talk with potential customers who had downloaded and installed Splunk (3.0 variety). My very first meeting was with a guy name Scott Davies VP of E-commerce Trading Platforms at Royal Bank of Scottland in London’s Bishop Gate. I had the opening slide to our presentation up when Scott walked in the room. He was very polite, asked us if we wanted some still or sparkling water and wanted to know how our trip was progressing thus far. Finished with the pleasantries he than quipped, “I love your product, but when are you going to change… |
