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Local Linux User Group brings Software Freedom Day to Rugby

23-09
Irenie White
Saturday 17th September - credativ employees were among the volunteers of Rugby Linux Users Group (LUG) who held an open day at The Benn Partnership Centre in Rugby to promote Free Software to the local community. Software Freedom Day is celebrated in over 100 countries worldwide; Linux User Groups...

OpenERP functionality development for Made.com: A Case Study

19-07
Irenie White
Rugby, UK - 19 July 2011 credativ have been helping clients to benefit from OpenERP for 3 years now. During this time we have made 10 deployments from our UK office, including customising and writing additional accounting, invoicing, VAT, and reporting modules for specific client requests, many of...

credativ and OpenERP Partner to Take on Proprietary ERP Giants

07-06
Irenie White
Rugby, UK - 6 June 2011 credativ Ltd, the UK branch of the largest independent provider of Open Source consultancy in Europe, today announced that it is partnering with OpenERP in a move aimed at increasing OpenERP’s share of the UK enterprise resource planning market (ERP). Chris Halls, MD,...

[Tip] Configuring SSH Jumphosts

16-05
Roland Wolters
The System Administrator will often come across a situation where an SSH connection to Host B is only possible by making a detour via SHH to Host A: client -> ssh A -> ssh B To shorten this two-step process, an entry can be made in the ~/.ssh/config of Host A as "Jumphost", to ensure that...

Changing Windows Internet Shortcut (*.url) files into GNOME desktop files

13-02
Joseph Conway
Recursively finding Windows Internet Shortcut (*.url) files and changing them into GNOME desktop files Over the past few days I have finally converted my wife's computer from WinXP to Linux (Ubuntu 10.10). One of the many fine points of the negotiation leading to this was that I needed to preserve...

credativ and Black Duck announce International Partnership

06-12
Irenie White
Rugby, 6 December 2010 - credativ Ltd and Black Duck Software Inc. have announced an international partnership to help further the deployment and integration of Open Source Software. The OSSC (Open Source Support Centre) run by credativ in the UK, US, Germany and Canada will now also be providing...

Open Source lives - PostgreSQL developers at credativ

20-09
Irenie White
Earlier this year, blogger and PostgreSQL Committer Andrew Dunstan drew up a list of individual Committers to the PostgreSQL Project. We are proud to say that this list featured some of our employees. In May, PostgreSQL's Andrew Dunstan published some data about the productivity of PostgreSQL...

[Tip] PostgreSQL Tip of the Day - which configs require restart?

11-09
Joseph Conway
I've been asked on at least three separate occasions lately how to know if changing a particular postgresql.conf item requires a restart, or a reload, of PostgreSQL. Here is my quick and dirty favorite way to answer this question: -- configs requiring postgresql restart select name, setting,...

CIOZone Interview

11-08
Lukas Gärtner
CIOZone, a social network for CIOs, recently interviewed our Founder and CEO Dr. Michael Meskes. CIOZone is a central place where CIOs can network. In this video, Roger Green takes the time to drop in to our office in Moenchengladbach, Germany to interview Michael Meskes, the founder of credativ...

PostgreSQL topic of the Day - PL/R performance improvements

24-07
Joseph Conway
When you pass large amounts of data to and from PL/R, quite a lot of time is needed for converting. A change is being tested which treats arrays of 4 byte integers and 8 byte floating point values as a special case, resulting in a dramatic performance improvement. In a recent post, I discussed PL/R...