UCOSP code sprint: day 2
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Today our task was to let the CMS, Drupal, to know about the following modules: GMap, Location, OpenLayers. I am new to Ingres and find it would be helpful if there is an "all in a page step by step tutorial" out there for newbies like me. So there you go!

Tutorial for newbies to start working on Ingres Geospatial on Windows XP 32 bit

  1. Every step in the following should be done with the latest update/release
  2. Step through the guide in the movie to download and install Ingres. If you are using home edition, make sure that the Windows'user name that you are logged in with does not contain any space.
  3. Get Xampp - A tool with PHP, Apache, etc and all the necessary configurations in one package.
  4. Note that "//xampp/htdocs/" is the root of your "website".
  5. Get and install Drupal.
  6. Know more on how to use Drupal.
  7. Get the following modules: OpenLayer, Location, and GMap, and let Drupal know these modules exists by following these configurations.
  8. After the modules, checkout the code from repository at http://code.ingres.com/ingres/main.
  9. Build the code that you have checked out by following this here.

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UCOSP code sprint: day 1
Friday, September 25, 2009

We started off 9am in the morning, with a demo by Andrew Ross about Ingres and valuable advices for our later career. After the lunch, our task for today is to get Apache, PHP, and configured them to work with each other, as well as to get Drupal installed.

I already have the first three on my machine from a all in one package that I have for quite a while: XAMPP. I went smooth myself for the installation back then, but there are various problems encountered by my teammates.

On top of the issue that I had with installation of Ingres. I found that the usability of installation process also has room to be improved for newbies. I would prefer myself not to spend 3 straight days at the code sprint to get every plugin and features into their own place, but use my time more usefully with everyone else. Nevertheless, I had a good time with them!

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Getting started for code sprint with Ingres!
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Tomorrow is the start of the code sprint for my project course, where all the students that are enrolled in UCOSP from universities across North America are invited to meet face to face to get things started, and know each other. As preparation for the great event, I have installed Ingres 10.0 build 107 on my 32bit machine that has Windows XP home edition on.

I once have encountered the problem "Invalid Ingres Username. Please check username, for invalid ingres characters". If you also have this problem, check if the user name of the Windows XP account that you are current log in has any space in it. If there is a space, renaming the user name into one that doesn't have space does not work. I solved it by creating another account that does not have a space and it works well.

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What every project should have for management
Monday, September 21, 2009

When I was going through the wiki pages of the Ingres Community, I spotted a page that I think every project should have, regardless of its scale, to enhance effectiveness.

Right now the progress speed of Geokudo is nearly 0 character/second due to serious damage to the architectural structure of the code by part of the team from misunderstandings. Due to this, I am appointed as the new project head, to rewrite the project from scratch to improve usability and project management.

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