Tag: Exploring Software Column
Exploring Software: openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolling Distribution Goes Mainstream
Here is a record of my initial explorations and findings about the recently released openSUSE rolling distribution repository, Tumbleweed, as experienced on a netbook.
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Exploring Software: ZODB, a NoSQL Database
Let's explore how to use ZODB, a NoSQL database, from Python, with an example that stores and retrieves 'album' and 'track' data from the database.
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Exploring Software: Extending J2EE Applications Using Grails
We look at how J2EE users can benefit from agile development methodologies by using Grails to maximise the returns from their middleware layer.
Exploring Grails...
Exploring Software: Getting a Hang of Zope’s Grok
According to Wikipedia, "to grok" is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. For example, to...
Exploring Software — Alternatives to Rails, Django
Zope 3 never picked up because most of the popular projects/products based on the application server never migrated from Zope 2. With "Grok --...
Exploring Software: Understanding a Netbook Desktop
Desktop environments are wonderful in the way they just work. The complexity of what is happening "below the hood" is well hidden from us....
Exploring Software: The State of VBA in OpenOffice.org Calc
I keep trying to file my income tax returns online. However, I insist on using OpenOffice.org and so I have failed to accomplish what...
Exploring Software: Delta Packages — Speed Up Updates By Downloading Less
An RPM package is essentially an archive with packaging and control information -- for example, you can extract the contents of a .rpm file...
Exploring Software: PackageKit — Overcoming Prejudice
My first reaction to the PackageKit UI, after its initial release on Fedora, was negative. It was prejudice at first sight.
I did not see...
