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I get to do a lot of cool things at Splunk.  One of the things I have been wanting to do is incorporate the visualizations I built a long time ago for Web Interface for Resource Manger in Splunk applications.  All of those past visualizations were built using Microsoft ASP.NET and Flash.  So, I have had to use alternate methods to accomplish what I want. Read more →

While designing a recent application, I wanted to display how many unique users logged in per day on a monthly basis. This is relatively trivial to do in the Splunk search language, but the visualization of that data usually ends up being a table. I thought it would be more natural to display this information on a calendar, so I set out to get this working with the new Splunk 6 hotness. Read more →

Starting with XenDesktop 7, Citrix stores the data the Desktop Director displays in a SQL database. Citrix opened up this data via a Monitor Service API that uses OData.  I’m not going to go deep into the details of the API as it is fairly well documented at the eDocs site.  The examples in the documentation show you how to access this data via web browser, Microsoft Excel, and LinqPad.  What I want to do... Read more →

Your end users expect mobile access to enterprise resources now. Unfortunately, our traditional remote access methods do not lend themselves easily to mobile form factors. So, we are left with the choice to use 3rd party apps, "mobilize" existing apps, or build our own. This article will address one of the players aimed at helping you build your own mobile apps with less effort. Read more →

Citrix Synergy is in Anaheim, California this year. With the recent release of Excalibur, it will be interesting to see what is revealed during the keynote. I'll be live-blogging the keynote this year. Check it out here or on Twitter @JasonConger. Read more →

It is day 2 of Citrix Synergy Barcelona and it is time for the Super Session (a.k.a. day 2 keynote). Keep up on the action with this live blog. Read more →

Citrix Synergy has returned to Barcelona, Spain. That means that I will be live blogging the keynote again this year. Read more →

We spend a lot of time optimizing how we deliver desktops and applications. But, the future will trivialize these things as the focus shifts the focus to data and the data moves to the cloud. It is happening now in the consumer market and the trend will infiltrate the enterprise as BYOD continues to become more prevalent. Read more →

It's time for Citrix Synergy 2012. I'll be live blogging the keynote again this year. I'm looking forward to hearing about some of the Cloud/multi-tenant announcements and mobility improvements. Read more →

In this post, we look at adding session reconnection event handling to our responsive design prototype using the Citrix XenApp Mobile Application SDK. Be sure to check out the video of the prototype. Read more →