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 [...]
A follow on post on setting up the Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF). If like me you have to work and communicate whilst connected to private systems, but from time-to-time need to collaborate with developers who are not privy to those systems then this article http://ecf1.osuosl.org/updateReleasedSiteInstructions.html may help. It describes how to install a plug-in into [...]
Have you ever needed a discussion with a colleague or a mentor whilst you were coding? Tried to in an instant messenger conversation and found switching between your editor and IM client frustrating? There is an project within Eclipse called the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) that transforms the Eclipse IDE into a instant collaboration tool [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m working with the folks at Jaspersoft building an Ingres BI appliance with Jasperserver 3.0 and decided to try the PHP sample that comes with the distribution. I’m no PHP expert so it helps to be able to call on one who knows their way around (thanks Grant). The environment: Apache/2.2.4 (Linux/SUSE) PHP 5.2.6 with [...]