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I started working for/on Ingres in 1995, as a student on industrial placement/internship for Computer Associates. After I graduated from university in 1997, I returned to work on Ingres as a full time employee. Working my way through the product, I have held numerous roles in technical support, rapid on-site support and development. Formally based in Britain, I now hide out in northern Spain, working on the Ingres PHP, Ruby and Python interfaces when I am not reading http://xkcd.com.

Contact details

• Google Profile : http://www.google.com/profiles/grant.croker
• Email : grantc@php.net or grant.croker@ingres.com
• MSN : grant.croker@ingres.com
• IRC : grantc/crogr01 in #ingres on irc.freenode.net
• Blog : http://blogs.planetingres.org/grant

Projects

• PHP - http://pecl.php.net/ingres
  • Ingres on a stick - Advising User:Satan.Malin on creating a self-contained Ingres Apache PHP distribution
• Ruby
• Python
• Wiki Stuff
  • Template:Connectivity_Project
    • Connectivity_Test_Project

Tasks

My Pages

Written

• PHP
  • PHP Driver and associated examples
  • PHP and Ingres on VMS - Building the Ingres PHP extension on the OpenVMS platform
• Python
  • IronPython and Ingres - Python and Ingres via .NET
• Ruby
  • Debugging Ruby C extensions on Linux
• General Ingres Stuff
  • Vim and ctags - Navigating the Ingres code using Vim and ctags
  • Ingres with Apache on Debian Etch - Steps needed to Allow web apps that connect to Ingres via PHP, Ruby, Python or ICE (Aka Ingres Web Deployment Option)
  • Development Summit Driver Workshops
  • Ingres SVN Repository
  • Code Sample Repository - About http://code.ingres.com/samples
  • Extracting ODBC version information using VBscript
  • CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as a literal string - a comparison different DBMS engines

Work In Progress

• Scratch Pad
• OpenAPI Batch Fetching - Fetching more than one row at a time
• Migrating from PECL Ingres 1.4 to 2.x
• PHP Ingres FAQ - Problems that I come across
• Wiki Syntax Highlighting - making code look pretty
• Ingres DBMS function list

To write

• Minimal Ingres environment - What is needed in the local environment / symbol table to access Ingres
• PHP Getting Started Guide - from zero to something usable
  • PHP Getting Started on Linux
  • PHP Getting Started on Solaris
  • PHP Getting Started on Windows
• PHP Ingres troubleshooting - for the native driver
• PHP Ingres ODBC troubleshooting - for the ODBC interface
• Ingres with web servers - seems to be a bit of a crap shoot still
  • Ingres and Apache
  • Ingres and IIS
• Setting up Ingres with Openfire - Openfire is the Jabber IM server from http://igniterealtime.org

• Image:JIM Components.zip
• Media:JIM_Components.zip