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 [...]
Today, Hibernate 3.5.0 completes its development cycle and is announced as Final.
Another session packed day kicked off by a rousing keynote from Robert C. Martin of Object Mentor Inc. entitled “Software Professionalism and the Art of Saying “No”. Robert touted a common sense approach to developing tests and software (and the order is important here). Being in the software industry for so long most/all of his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]