Ingres Technology Blog

In case you missed Andrew Ross’ presentation on how to get started contributing to Ingres, I wanted to share the link to the webinar. You can find it in the Ingres DBMS section entitled Ingres Open Source Community. The VIP archive page has a wealth of information on how to get started with Ingres, upcoming release information and future direction. Sign up to get invites to future sessions.

Andrew does a great job walking through some of the tools that Ingres is now using to help users i.e.

• view source (LXR)

http://lxr.ingres.com

• How to create a  work area

svn co http://code.ingres.com/ingres/main~/ingres-main

• To raise a bug to the Ingres community

http://bugs.ingres.com

• Looking for more on Ingres

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.ingres/topics

deb woods

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Over the past year we have had quite a bit of interest in the Eclipse dtp bundle and this has spurred interest in building an integrated developer’s stack. Ingres CAFE is such a project that was spearheaded by Samrat Dhillon, a graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Ingres CAFE bundles the Eclipse IDE, Ingres Database, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate Libraries, and JSF libraries into a single installable package complete with documentation and integrated maintenance. There is also a demo included to help developers get started with the tool.

Check out Ingres CAFE and let us know what you think and future developer tools you would like to see working with Ingres.

Great job to the students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

deb woods

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A number of months ago we moved did a bit of work to take our latest documentation for the Ingres database and make it more accessible. At first we were just going to take the direct output of the documentation tool we use, but we wanted to make it dead simple to find and bookmark the docs without having to deal with frames and computer generated file names. To accomplish this feat, Andy took the XML output from the tool and threw some python at it and we’ve ended up with http://docs.ingres.com. As Ingres releases new documentation, we’ll be pushing it all out to this site for your easy access.

One of the really nice side benefits of putting out documentation out this way is the capability to use search to find just what you’re looking for. I’ll show you how to search our documentation using our own site, using google along with some tricks and tips for using google, and using our new Ingres Service Network platform currently available to our customers.

The first way to search is to use the search integrated with our web site found in the upper right corner embedded in the header. In particular, you’ll find a way to integrate this search engine right into your browser. I’ve included a short screencast to demonstrate this feature here (no audio).

While you will usually find that the search function on the Ingres web site is more then sufficient, I thought I would share with you a few tips and tricks I use with Google and the Ingres doc set.

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