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 [...]
Following on from the post Ingres documentation site relaunched I’ve updated the search plug-in and created the Ingres doc search plug-in page.
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 [...]
This year’s IUA conference; a crammed packed one day event with 5 streams of sessions with keynotes from Ingres‘ CEO Roger Burkhardt, Novell‘s Director of Product Management Dr. Gerald Pfeifer and Talend‘s François Mero. Ingres announced the release of Ingres VectorWise with a “see it to believe it” live demonstration; identical analytical queries run on [...]
Trying to debug projects made using Apache Maven has not been something achieved with any success. Having been working at the periphery of the Hibernate source and submitting simple patches for the Ingres dialect and some tests I am now in a position to start debugging some of the issues discovered whilst testing. I have [...]
Today, Hibernate 3.5.0 completes its development cycle and is announced as Final.