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Emacs Resources

See the excellent emacs introduction in the links section below.

When using Emacs, you use the control key A LOT. For speed, and to prevent straining your pinkie (literally), you want the control key in a sensible location. Unix workstations (like Sun boxes) have traditionally had the control key where the caps-lock is on most PC keyboards. There are some different ways to achieve the same thing on your computer:

Buy a new keyboard - I personally use both the super-compact Happy Hacker keyboards and the excellent kinesis-ergo contour keyboard. They are seriously good (and easier to get used to than you would think).
Map your caps-lock to control. Since nearly all caps-lock keys are stateless these days (ie. they don't pyhisically click down) this is usually easy:
- Macos: uControl
- Windows: You can usually map this in the registry (on modern windows versions anyway) or with MS power tools for 95/98) see: this link
- X11/Un*x: using xmodmap

Links:

Emacs introductory tutorial - from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona

Emacs tips blog entry - Where Mark Aufflick started collecting emacs links and tidbits

OpenACS module for emacs - The Emacs OACS module is an extension to GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. See the install docs at http://www.thecodemill.biz/services/oacs/install/

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PostgreSQL based Commercial RDBMS (EnterpriseDB) to invest in the PostgreSQL Community [www.enterprisedb.com]

EnterpriseDB provide a special purpose version of the PostgreSQL open source relational database, targeted at Oracle compatibility.

Announced at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, August 9, 2005, EnterpriseDB will provide sponsorship for further PostgreSQL development and release leadership, in addition to providing existing source code.

This is an excellent boost to PostgreSQL, already one of the best relational database management systems in the world as well as the most ANSI compliant.

Pumptheory.com uses and recommends PostgreSQL to it's clients and would like to welcome these investments by EnterpriseDB into the PostgreSQL community.

(Thank's to Solution Grove for alerting me to this press release.)

PostgreSQL began as Ingres in 1977 - you can read a short history of it's development here.

10:52 AM, 14 Aug 2005 by Web Master Permalink | Comments (0)

Press release from the .LRN Consortium [home.businesswire.com]

The newly formed .LRN (read dotLRN) Consortium has released it's first press release.

Members of a multi-university project on open source software for collaborative education today announced formation of the .LRN ("Dot-Learn") Consortium to accelerate and expand development of an open source application suite currently used by a quarter million students and educators at institutions of higher education and research around the globe.

The .LRN Project encompasses an ongoing 10-year development effort and represents the world's largest open source project for scalable educational software. Built on the OpenACS project, .LRN applications originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and enhancements from the past several years have been deployed by the MIT Sloan School of Management as SloanSpace -- its primary means of providing class management and community support. At present, SloanSpace hosts more than 10,000 student and faculty users, amounting to 1,250+ unique logins per day.

Along with the MIT Sloan School, charter members of the .LRN Consortium include Heidelberg University, The European Union-funded E-Lane Project and the University of Sydney.

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11:23 AM, 13 Oct 2004 by Web Master Permalink | Comments (0)

Recently presented lecture material

Thank's to Rafael Calvo (Web Engineering Group, The University of Sydney), pumptheory.com's Mark Aufflick recently presented a series of Software Engineering lectures.

The slide sets and related research materials are now available online:

Workflows - An overview of workflows including Petri Nets and Finite State Machines
OpenACS Workflow - An overview of implementing a finite state machine workflow with the OpenACS workflow package
Introduction to OpenACS Package Development

(All lecture material)

01:15 PM, 07 Oct 2004 by Web Master Permalink | Comments (0)