GDAL OGR2OGR for Data Loading
What is FWTools and OGR GDAL?FWTools GIS Toolkit is a freely available open source toolkit for Windows and Linux that can do more than GIS tricks. It is a precompiled bundle of Open Source GIS tools....
View ArticlePuTTY for SSH Tunneling to PostgreSQL Server
What is PuTTYPuTTY was developed by Simon Tatham and is a very common light-weight MIT-Licensed free and open source Secure Shell (SSH) client for connecting to Linux/Unix systems via a Teletype (TTY)...
View ArticlePHP Gallery 2 for Picture Storage and Simple Document Management
What is PHP Gallery 2?PHP Gallery 2 is a web-based management system for storing pictures and other documents such as movies and flash files. While it is not designed for storing documents such as...
View ArticlePortable GIS: PostgreSQL and PostGIS on a USB Stick
First this is a windows only package, but nevertheless sweet. In our article What can PostgreSQL learn from MySQL? we complained about the fact that there is nothing like Server2GO pre-packaged with...
View ArticleOpenJump for PostGIS Spatial Ad-Hoc Queries
OpenJump is a Java Based, Cross-Platform open source GIS analysis and query tool. We've been using it a lot lately, and I would say out of all the open source tools (and even compared to many...
View ArticleFusion Charts for Sprucing up Data
This product is not specifically a PostgreSQL product but it is one that we use frequently with many of our database apps so we felt our obligation to blog about it in the context of databases. Lets...
View ArticleOn the topic of Cheat Sheets: DZone RefCardz
This is a product that has nothing to do with PostgreSQL yet, so it does seem kind of odd that we are listing this in our product showcase section.Well it is not even really a product per se, but I was...
View ArticleDatabase Administration, Reporting, and Light application development
One of the most common questions people ask is Which tools work with PostgreSQL. In a sense the measure of a database's maturity/popularity are the number of vendors willing to produce management and...
View ArticleWink: Making screencast tutorials
Debugmode Wink is a freeware piece of software for both business as well as personal use for doing screencasts and incorporating sound into your screen captures. The main useful format it outputs to is...
View ArticleImporting data into PostgreSQL using Open Office Base 3.2
A while ago we demonstrated how to use Open Office Base to connect to a PostgreSQL server using both the native PostgreSQL SBC and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver.The routine for doing the same in Open...
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PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook Book Review
I was excited when PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook by Simon Riggs and Hannu Krosing and the companion book PostgreSQL 9 High Performance, by Greg Smith were available. All three authors are well known...
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Hello LibreOffice, Goodbye OpenOffice
Many people have been concerned with Oracle's stewardship of past Sun Microsystems open source projects. There are Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris to name a few. Why are people concerned? Perhaps the...
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PostgreSQL 9 High Performance Book Review
In a prior article we did a review of PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook, by Simon Riggs and Hannu Krosing. In this article we'll take a look at the companion book PostgreSQL 9 High Performance by Greg...
View ArticleAdminer web-based database administration
We were recently looking for an open source light-weight database web administration tool that would be preferably database cross-platform and would work on either ASP.NET or PHP. Adminer fit the bill....
View ArticlePostGIS 2.1 Bundle for PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows Stackbuilder
PostGIS 2.1 bundle for PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows is now available on StackBuilder for windows users. You will find both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The bundle includes the following features:PostGIS...
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