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conference audio is up!

Friday, October 26, 2007

PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 audio is now available! Check it out.
I didn’t edit much, other than to eliminate break-time chatter. My apologies to Neil Conway — I missed about 10 minutes of his talk. Thank goodness for redundancy! Once I rip the video, I will update the audio and publish the whole […]

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ignite was fun, some links

Friday, October 26, 2007

Last night’s Ignite talks were awesome. My thanks to MJ for encouraging me to drink a FULL glass of wine before my talk.
I posted my slides here. Those of you wondering who that handsome man is on slide 3, here’s the wikipedia entry for Benjamin Bloom. He was an educational psychologist whose learning taxonomy […]

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conference aftermath: tired, happy

Monday, October 22, 2007

The conference was insanely great. We had incredible speakers, plentiful coffee, good food and amazing volunteers. I met so many new people and heard about a number of interesting projects that I’ll be following up on and writing about soon. Thank you to Joshua Drake and Josh Berkus for helping organize all of the big […]

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new word - twittermentia

Thursday, October 18, 2007

twittermentia: happens when you can only remember your most recent post to Twitter.

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PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 - only two more days

Thursday, October 18, 2007

We’re taking care of all the last minute details - making sure we have enough coffee Saturday morning, getting nametags printed, stuffing folders and practicing (or in some cases finishing) talks.
I created a special page for my conference posts. I’ve included links to public transportation, all the maps to find your way to […]

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psql and file, CSV exports

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Gabrielle and I met to talk about some projects today. She brought up a couple questions that were raised about differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL syntax for data export.
She showed me \pset fieldsep and \pset format for controlling interactive output from SELECTS (see psql documentation). You might say: \pset fieldsep , (although that […]

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Perl Survey results released

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Michael Schwern just gave a keynote at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop on the results of the Perl Survey. I did a quick and dirty transfer of the MySQL database to PostgreSQL and Schwern, Gabrielle and I made some views of the data. Schwern put a link to all the database dumps on his blog.
I’m proposing […]

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PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 - Friday meetup

Friday, October 12, 2007

A few people on the mailing lists and IRC are organizing a meetup on the Friday before the PostgreSQL conference. Check out the wiki page set up to select a location and say whether or not you’ll be there! If you’re a local, vote for the location you’d like to meet at.
Here are the […]

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an annoying form issue, easily solved with a regex

Friday, October 12, 2007

I’ve been booking flights lately. Orbitz has a “remind you” feature that lets you get a voice message, text message or page a few hours before your flight. So I started playing around with it and ran into this:

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PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 - Where to eat lunch

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Thanks to many suggestions from PDXPUG’s mailling list and Gabrielle Roth’s patience with Google Maps, we have a great map of the area around the conference. She was kind enough to put the nearest parking garage ($9/day) on the map as well. If you’re looking for some parking that’s a bit more affordable but a […]

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