I put down my pen (keyboard) and looked away from the blog and when I looked up three months have passed and I have been remiss at writing articles. Trying to decide on (what I think are) interesting articles is very taxing on my diminishing grey cells and I have to allocate more of them to be creative.
A couple of weeks back we had an inaugural meeting with the contributors from UCSOP supporting the Ingres project. One of the primary projects is to use of Ingres geospatial support as the backing database for the OpenLayers plug-in in Drupal. A few of the team travelled to Toronto for a face-to-face meeting and seem to have enjoyed their first experiences with Ingres.
Yesterday I sat-in on the preliminary presentations for the Ingres OpenROAD Code Sprint taking place in the European headquarters. My interest was the processes employed to make the code and tools available to the participants and then to introduce the working practices of making a code contribution and I took away a few ideas.
Most of the past few months has been spent on working on issues ready for the impending Ingres 9.3 release. Some of which involved reading byte-code and assembler to document a compiler bug.
Much has been going on since my last post but most notable from the Emerging Technologies Team were:
- Icebreaker BI Appliance with Jasperserver 3.5
- Ingres and Jasperserver bundle
- Ingres and Alfresco bundle
- Ingres and JBoss development stack
More catching-up later, but hopefully not three months 