In a comment to my previous blog, Sarat Pediredla of Hedgehog Lab introduced himself and a product called Fixx and said that it “could potentially support Ingres”. Since that comment I’ve exchanged communication with Sarat and now have Fixx 1.3 working with Ingres 9.2.0. The set-up wasn’t as straight forward as hoped because of the [...]
There is currently discussion within the Ingres engineering group on the processes that should be employed to support community contributions. In parallel, there is a discussion on the tools that can best support the community effort. An issue and bug tracker produce by Atlassian called Jira is very promising but does not offer Ingres support [...]
This year’s conference was preceded by an experimental three day development code sprint. Read about the sprint, A Sprint to the Finish. On the day of the conference the first half plenary speakers were Roy Hann, Simon Catlin, Emma McGrattan and Joe Kronk. Roy focused on two topics, conference organization and community communications. There are [...]
Has it really been 8 weeks since I last visited this page? Since my return from the engineering summit it feels like I’ve been swimming against the tide working frantically with my colleagues to make ready the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) appliance (shameless plug: powered by Ingres, rPath and Alfresco) for the Early Adopter Programme [...]
WOW! What a week. I was lucky enough to participate in the Ingres Engineering Summit 2008 and I don’t think that a short blog could really do it justice. Ingres Engineering is distributed around the globe and this was an ideal opportunity to meet up and catch up. The summit was held in the Punta [...]
This year Ingres is participating organization in GSoC, an event sponsored by Google that encourages students, of all levels, to get involved with Open Source. A summary of some proposed projects can be found here and here, any interested candidates need to get their skates on as the deadline for application is March 31, register [...]
It has been a very busy few months and the appliance team moves apace and is continuously subjected to requests for new applications and Ingres releases. With the latest release of Ingres one of the new features is cached dynamic query plans; that will benefit any application that uses prepared dynamic queries. Ingres has long [...]
I’ve been clearing out some old files and found an example of ingstatus for Windows. Ingstatus is a utility that is available on Linux and UNIX. This example uses the functions available in the little known library iilibutil.dll. I’ve put it on the community site on the ingstatus page. The iilibutil library contains some useful [...]
It now seems a very long time ago, but last November I took part in a team meeting where we discussed how to evangelize Ingres within our own sphere of influence. Projects similar to the Playstation 3 port and the Eclipse DTP were mentioned as innovative. During the meeting I was asked to take a [...]
Ingres is starting a project modeled on the Linux Kernel Janitors Project called (for now) the Ingres Janitors Project. Early indications are that the existing news group comp.databases.ingres and the mailing list info-ingres are going to be used as the vehicle for communications. Any one who is interested in participating or contributing should visit the [...]