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Monthly Archives: November 2007

postgresql conference east 2008 - announcement

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Joshua Drake sent out the announcement for the PostgreSQL Conference East ‘08 just the other day. We’re both super excited about getting the community together in Maryland. I’m also really looking forward to meeting the many contributors living in that area for the first time.
I was originally drawn to the University of Maryland as a […]

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gulf coast trip: halloween, new orleans, lazarus project

Saturday, November 24, 2007

We drove to New Orleans on Halloween. That night, we walked down Bourbon Street, to the Frenchman. It was a Wednesday night, but the streets were packed. We talked with people on our way, bought some pastries at a coffee shop, and we lost half of our crew in the crowds.

Eventually, we found a […]

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women’s sized t-shirts for postgresql

Saturday, November 24, 2007

I have been looking into getting some woman-sized PostgreSQL shirts, in addition to the more typical men-sized tshirts. The particular style is American Apparel shirts, style # 2102. The shirt says ‘PostgreSQL’ in small print on the front, and has the big elephant logo on the back. We’ll most likely ask for a $20 donation […]

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gulf coast trip: biloxi, hands on gulf coast, de-molding

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

My first volunteer project was de-molding a house in Biloxi. Over three days, nearly all of the Hands On Portland team and I worked with Emily, a team leader from Hands On Gulf Coast. The house was built about 20 years ago, and it sat unoccupied after Katrina. Despite being 13 feet off the […]

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ptop hackathon, this saturday

Monday, November 19, 2007

We’re getting together at my place to work on ptop on Saturday at Noon. Get in touch if you’d like to join in. We’ll have room for 4-5 more people. It’s going to be at my place, so for directions just email me, Mark or Gab.

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ptop - meeting summary from last nights pdxpug

Friday, November 16, 2007

Last night’s meeting was about ptop and Mark Wong’s efforts to make an interactive, command-line tool for monitoring the current status of a PostgreSQL database.
For our meeting, Mark set up a test operating system on a USB drive, and bravely demo’d his new software.
Mark got the idea for ptop a few months ago, and went […]

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automatic character set conversion in postgresql

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Today, I encountered a few goofy characters in the data I am migrating from one ERP system to another. For example, “¢” isn’t represented the same way in UTF-8 as LATIN1 character sets. In UTF-8, the hex representation for “¢” is c2 a2, but in LATIN1 it is a2.
I started looking for an […]

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back from the gulf coast

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

My trip to the Gulf Coast with volunteers from Hands On Portland ended on Sunday. I wrote continuously while I was there, cataloging every experience so that my leaky memory wouldn’t fail me when I wanted to reflect.

I had a wonderful time and made some lifelong friends. Karol wrote eloquently nearly every day. While […]

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