Those nice people at Atlassian have another starter introductory offer http://www.atlassian.com/starter/. Not being a person to look a gift horse in the mouth, and already using and evaluation of Jira 3.12 with Ingres I decided to put my hand in my pocket. I’ve updated the scripts and the notes to get Jira working with Ingres [...]
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 [...]
Another successful and worthwhile conference hosted by the UK Ingres User Association wrapped up Tuesday evening following a day cram packed with keynotes speeches and presentations. Most notably, this year’s keynote speakers were Roger Burqhart, Phillip Andrew from RedHat and Dr. Ian Howells from Alfresco each with a similar message; Open source is a key [...]
Following the popularity and attendance at last year’s code sprint a repeat of the event was held on the two days prior to the UK IUA. The objective of the event was to introduce, and in some cases re-introduce, the sprinters to the Ingres source code and build environment; either a pre-configured VMWare virtual machine [...]
I’ve been poking around the ADF code and came across these IMA objects for data types and operators in the DBMS. These IMA objects, like many others, exist but are never exposed. Data types The following registration will create a table that contains data type name and the data type description bits. drop ima_dbms_datatypes; \p\g [...]
As alluded to in a previous post I have been working with the Appliance development team on the Ingres Icebreaker BI appliance with Jasperserver 3.1 announced GA today. The work to keep up with the Jaspersoft release cycle is in progress and early functionality tests a re looking good. I’ve kept some brief notes on [...]
It has been a while since my last post; head down updating the packages on the BI appliance, but that’s another story. Java and JDBC applications seem to be the plat du jour and trying to peel away the layers getting to the JDBC settings and queries being executed in some of the frameworks can [...]
On February 25th the parents of the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance announced its availability; the holistic product of Ingres Icebreaker and Alfresco Document Management Software. Although we immediately started on our next project the team did take a few moments to look up from the keyboard. The release was well received by the press and [...]
I was recently asked about the ability to run a row producing procedure from anything other than ESQLC, which reminded me of a couple of feature requests that I have recently made http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Table_Procedure_Enhancements, named result columns for a row producing procedure and the ability to use a row producing procedure in a view definition. In [...]
Pardon my French, but an Ingres Google Summer of Code project, Ingres CAFÉ, demonstrated at LinuxWorld and nominated for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence award was named winner over a number of other innovative projects that included TWiki.net: TWiki OnDemand Enterprise. Ingres CAFÉ is a complete Web application development stack and runtime building upon Ingres 9.2.0, [...]