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	<title>Ben Sullins Tech Blog</title>
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		<title>Fletcher or DeMaio, Who&#8217;s the next Mayor of San Diego?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 San Diego Mayoral race is heating up. Most excitedly, Nathan Fletcher, whom I support, has surged into second place behind Carl DeMaio by only 3 points. Below, I have collected some of the data from the public polls &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/fletcher-or-demaio-next-mayor-of-san-diego/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Fight For Air Climb</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18th, 2012 I had the pleasure of helping to fight lung cancer by racing up 31 flights of stairs as part of the GNU Fitness team at the 2012 Fight For Air Climb in San Diego California. Being &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/2012-fight-for-air-climb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging your Tableau Server to create large Data Extracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Modeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[big data]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work leveraging the Tableau Data Server. This is a great new feature of Tableau Server that allows BI groups to publish standard sets of data to Tableau for analysts to consume. This is &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/leveraging-your-tableau-server-to-create-large-data-extracts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keyboard Settings for Excel via VMFusion</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/keyboard-settings-for-excel-via-vmfusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keyboard Shortcuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMFusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working with data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever have problems using your standard keyboard shortcuts in Excel when running it on a Mac in VMFusion? Me too&#8230; So, after some digging and testing I found some of my basic Excel navigation functions would trigger rather heinous responses &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/keyboard-settings-for-excel-via-vmfusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering WOW through Data</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/delivering-wow-through-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Transformation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[delivering happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enterprise metadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-service BI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos.com, wrote in his book Delivering Happiness that their first objective is to Deliver WOW through Service. In the book he described a parody of Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy of needs for delivering WOW. At the bottom layer &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/delivering-wow-through-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Finding your Tableau Server PostgreSQL database port</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/finding-your-tableau-server-postgresql-database-port/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever have issues connecting to your Tableau Server PostgreSQL database due to a port issue? If so, you&#8217;re not alone! I too have struggled with this before and after hitting it just the second time I did some digging and &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/finding-your-tableau-server-postgresql-database-port/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to add an &#8216;All&#8217; parameter option in Tableau</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/how-to-add-an-all-parameter-option-in-tableau/</link>
		<comments>http://bensullins.com/how-to-add-an-all-parameter-option-in-tableau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to include an &#8216;All&#8217; option in your Tableau parameters? Simple! Here&#8217;s how: Create your parameter with the options available. In this example I&#8217;m creating one for [Region]. Make sure to manually add the &#8216;ALL&#8217; option. Drag the corresponding &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/how-to-add-an-all-parameter-option-in-tableau/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing Tableau Server Logos and Icons</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/customizing-tableau-server-logos-and-icons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When deploying Tableau Server for a client, I often find that clients wish to customize their Tableau Server environment with their own branding. The Tableau Server Administration Guide offers some options for customizing Tableau Server however it is limited in &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/customizing-tableau-server-logos-and-icons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon EC2 Hosting and Tableau</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/amazon-ec2-hosting-and-tableau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I started working with the Amazon EC2 (more) and have been pleasantly surprised. In about 20 minutes I was able to create my own Windows 2008 R2 Data Center Edition Server in the cloud with enough space to run &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/amazon-ec2-hosting-and-tableau/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Full Device Encryption on Android 4.0</title>
		<link>http://bensullins.com/full-device-encryption-on-android-4-0/</link>
		<comments>http://bensullins.com/full-device-encryption-on-android-4-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sullins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading my mobile device to the Nexus S from Google, I was poking around in the security settings when I found something new. Android 4.0 now has full-device encryption capabilities. This means that while enterprises wishing to gain the &#8230; <a href="http://bensullins.com/full-device-encryption-on-android-4-0/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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