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Open Source Boot Camp comes to the UK

Monday, October 13, 2008

OSBootcamp is mini-open source conference put in place by Andrew Ross in Canada, see http://osbootcamp.org, to try to teach students about open source and how to program in C (since it’s no longer fashionable). Reproduced below is an email from Marty Bowes regarding the first UK OSBootcamp to be held at Oxford University. Should [...]

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Improvements to code.ingres.com and bugs.ingres.com

Thursday, October 9, 2008

There have been a number of recent improvements to Ingres’s Subversion repository and community issue tracking located at http://code.ingres.com and http://bugs.ingres.com respectively. The following changes were made:

Common authentication back-end
SSL for login
Improved synchronization from Piccolo

Common authentication back-end

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A PHP Ingres update

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Its been a long time coming but I have finally released to cvs.php.net a major revision of the PECL Ingres code. So major that I have had to break backwards compatibility to implement the ability to have multiple active result-sets. Since I promised Andy Grimm I would write a piece on the new driver for [...]

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Going to the Eclipse Summit

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Next month I will be attending the Eclipse Summit in Ludgwigsburg, Germany. The plan at the moment is to take over a PS3 to run Ingres on with another machine acting as a client for the Eclipse DTP Ingres plugin and the Ingres Frequent Flyer demo.
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IUA presentation - No speaky the COBOL?

Friday, June 8, 2007

This Wednesday I gave a session on the languages that can interface with Ingres. The content of my session was a high level overview with some simple examples thrown in for the non Embedded languages. Going into sufficient detail for all the languages we support in 35 minutes was not possible. There was a lot [...]

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Eclipse Webcast playback available

Thursday, February 8, 2007

For those of you who missed the webcast for the new Eclipse Ingres DTP plug-in, a playback is now available via the ingres.com website. In the meantime the DTP release has been getting some nice press coverage, as well as a blog post from the Ingres CFO.

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Installing Ingres 2006 r2 on Ubuntu 6.10

Thursday, January 4, 2007

I have recently been looking at a problem with Ingres and PHP on Ubuntu. In order to look at the bug I had to get Ingres installed. Normally a simple proposition with RPMs or the older install/ingbuild installation and set-up process. However with Ubuntu 6.10 it was not to be.
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BEA partners with Ingres

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Yesterday Ingres announced a new partnership with a very large ISV. Having worked on the initial stage of the project along with serveral colleagues I am very happy to see this come to fruition. Read the press release for more info.

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