Ingres Community Brews up Success with CAFÉ
August 8th, 2008
Earlier this week Ingres CAFÉ won a product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld. Ingres CAFÉ for Linux is a community project, supported by the Google Summer of Code. The idea behind CAFÉ is to package and configure a complete stack of technologies for a web application developer so that they can focus their energies on application development and not spend hours banging their heads against their desks as they attempt to troubleshoot what typically transpire to be trivial configuration issues. The photo above was taken at LinuxWorld and shows an exhausted but proud Andrew Ross and Samrat Dhillon who’s collaboration is paying dividends for the Ingres and Eclipse developer communities.
A message from Andrew Ross:
Thanks for the kind words everyone.
The demo gods did not disappoint. Despite the fact the software was working perfectly for quite some time, when it came time to set up at the booth, we got a surprise.
We were supposed to have a network connection but it was not set up yet. This wasn’t critical to us as the software can run locally. Despite this, when we tried to run our demo, we kept getting an error telling us we were working offline and to uncheck the work offline checkbox if we wanted to work. Of course, there is no work offline checkbox in Eclipse so this was confusing.
Apparently Firefox on my machine was smart enough to notice there was no external network and activated the “Work Offline” feature (or bug more like it!). Setting up a local network with a static IP did nothing. It took me a bit to discover the error was from Firefox and remember that I could easily bypass it by using Firefox standalone rather than inside Eclipse and thus uncheck the work offline setting.
Once realized, the world was a happy place again.
My sincerest thanks to Gareth Baker, Alex Trofast, Viktoriya Driker, and Kazah Dauda for helping us do the dash needed to achieve this win. Thank you.
Thank you to Talent First Network, Dr. Tony Bailetti, and Google Summer of Code for funding CAFÉ development. These are great programs and I cannot say enough good things about them.
Most importantly, thank you to Samrat Dhillon. I can’t think of many people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career that get the job done with less fuss. Samrat… you’re Scottie keeping CAFÉ Enterprise running, please keep it up.
We may now get some much earned sleep before we go after some bugs and enhancements we want to implement.
Andrew
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We’re renovating the Ingres Community Site at the moment and if you haven’t visited it lately I invite you to come take a look.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Yeah, they both look exhausted and in need of a couple of shirts with larger Ingres logos, but there’s no time to be complacent; final evaluations for GSoC 2008 are due next week. I know that Andrew was worried about what the demo gods could do to him so that must be a look of relief.
I’ll add my congratulations to the throng http://blogs.planetingres.org/notnull/2008/08/06/donnez-moi-un-cafe-ingres/trackback/ too.