Sunday, September 6, 2009

Unfinished PDI Tuto...

In early 2008, I started writing a tutorial on the excellent Pentaho Data Integrator, which I never finished.

Hopefully, there is sufficient content for it to still be a worthwhile read.

You can download it here.

Mono-free

OK, call me a fanboy if you want to...

...but I really see the point of Richard Stallman's rant about how to avoid being faced with a software patent issue with ongoing use of Mono.

After a little searching, I finally took the plunge and removed Mono from my Ubuntu-based operating system.

I won't miss the Tomboy notes taker much, and my system is not running any faster without mono. Since doing that, I've been reading up on trying to determine how wise my action was, and judging from some of the many writeups on the topic. I convinced that I did the right thing.