How does Visifire Rendering Works?

Since the release of Visifire 2.0 I am using the toolkit for chart visualization. Mostly within SharePoint (see here and here), but lately also within Windows Azure. I like the simplicity, the looks and the customizability of Visifire. It is challenging to provide this functionality in an easy to use toolkit, but Visifire does an excellent job at it.

The secret of Visifire is of course the underlying set of algorithms that determine the best visualization for a given set of parameters. So even when you provide bare minimum data required for rendering, Visifire renders a nice looking chart which has tooltips, default interactivity like explode in Pie Chart, auto font-color for labels depending on the Chart Background color, auto indexing of DataPoints when XValue is not provided, etc. Though Visifire makes effort to find the best visualization for any given case, its not perfect. Sometimes you just want to make it a little different.

Sunil Urs wrote a great post at the Visifire blog that explains the default rendering behavior of Visifire and how you can adapt it to your needs. A must read when you use, or plan to use, Visifire.

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The Intersection of People and Process

Saturday I wrote a guest post on the blog "The Intersection of People and Process" which is owned by my buddy Jeff Shuey. It is Jeff's place to talk about Cloud Computing, Workflow, BPM, ECM, CRM, UC and other work related stuff, but also about other things that interest him - mountain biking, wake surfing, and anything else that strikes a chord.

Jeff spent the better part of the last 16 years working in various aspects of the ECM space. He spent time at Kofax, Microsoft, FileNet, K2, and most recently Captaris (which was acquired by Open Text in Nov 2008). Prior to that he was a Unix VAR running his own company. Follow him on Twitter and/or check his blog. It is definitely worth it!

My guest post is titled "Where is my data?", and is about the the apparently simple question where your data is located within a cloud service. Go check it out, and let me know what you think about the data issue in the cloud computing space.

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