Over Christmas, when I couldn’t tolerate the withdrawal of internet and computer abstinence any longer, I decided to investigate how to write a packet dissector for Wireshark. Wireshark (nee Ethereal) is an open source network protocol analyser with an extensive set of protocol dissectors and a plug-in architecture for writing your own. Having downloaded and verified a fresh build, [...]
For the past few months the migration tool has been developed as an Eclipse plug-in as well as a stand-alone wizard. The reasons behind this were to make use of the Eclipse development and runtime environments and with Apache maven and ant create a process for the release lifecycle. Fortunately and timely Google donated WindowBuilder, recognized [...]
I have been repeatedly installing different builds of the Ingres 10 beta for testing with the Ingres Hibernate dialect and in my quest to be lazy I have been performing minimal installs by hand. My recent post Ingres Package Install Ain’t Misbehavin mentions the change in behaviour of a manual package installation that I fell [...]
In recent development to improve/overhaul the Ingres rpm installation and set-up some of the set-up process was moved from the rpm packages into the installation RC script and a %posttrans scriptlet was used to perform some of the preparatory set-up steps. Unfortunately, the %posttrans scriptlet was not being triggered on some versions of Linux and [...]
A couple of days ago the new and improved documentation site was launched http://docs.ingres.com/ to allow the pages to be indexed by Google and now also includes a handy feedback mechanism. I created a simple Google gadget to create a document search query that can be added to your iGoogle home page. It took a [...]
As follow-up to the UK IUA 2010 and the video of the Ingres VectorWise demonstration the Ingres Emerging Technologies Team has created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a pre-installed evaluation copy of Ingres VectorWise. The Ingres Community wiki page has some simple instructions to get started. As a guideline to the cost, I ran [...]
I mentioned in a previous post UK IUA 2010 that Ingres announced the release of Ingres VectorWise. During the announcement was a live demonstration using the Ingres Database Workbench; recorded for posterity.
Today, Hibernate 3.5.0 completes its development cycle and is announced as Final.
Way back in May last year I experimented with some IMA tables that showed data types and operators defined in the DBMS. Further poking around and a table for a list of the function instances is available, drop ima_dbms_fis; \p\g register table ima_dbms_fis ( server varchar(64) not null not default is ‘SERVER’, id integer4 not [...]
Have you ever had to create a development stack on a machine from scratch to develop on or to check out a new technology? You have? Then you must have suffered some of the same frustrations and annoyances of ensuring that the prerequisites and dependencies of each component are satisfied; ending up with downloading some [...]