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OpenSQLCamp was awesome!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended OpenSQLCamp this past weekend in Portland, OR! More than 100 people participated – developers, DBAs and hobbyists from all over the world. Database developers participated from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle, TokuDB, LucidDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB and many more. The great thing about these events is the opportunity to trade ideas, [...]

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Bucardo talk up

Saturday, October 17, 2009

For those that don’t follow the End Point blog, I just posted my slides for the Bucardo talk I gave this morning in seattle.

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The future of free and open source support models

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I attended the MySQL Conference all last week, and am feeling very excited about the future of open source databases. I had many interesting discussions and met a ton of Drizzle hackers I was lucky enough to spend Friday with, digging through code. I was talking with Paul Vallée of the Pythian Group Thursday about [...]

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Greg’s THREE talks at PostgreSQL Conference East

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Greg Sabino Mullane will be presenting three talks at PostgreSQL Conference East this weekend in Philadelphia, at Drexel University. The talks are listed on the site, and here’s what he’ll be speaking about: Bucardo April 5, Sunday, 10am Bucardo is a replication system for Postgres that uses triggers to asynchronously copy data from one server [...]

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Simon Riggs just rocked my world.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

I’m in Brussels for the FOSDEM conference, hanging out at the PostgreSQL booth, meeting my European colleagues, and running into friends. PostgreSQL has a developer’s room and Simon Riggs just wrapped up a talk about Replication. I sincerely hope that the video of the talk turned out well, because it was the most inspiring and [...]

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Mentor Summit Report for PostgreSQL

Monday, October 27, 2008

Update: Fixed the etherboot wiki link. I attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit this past weekend on behalf of PostgreSQL. We met at the Google campus in Mountain View. This event was an unconference and so, none of the sessions were determined in advance. Some of the highlights were: Leslie Hawthorn and Chris [...]

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geekspeakr.com

Monday, April 14, 2008

Heard of geekspeakr.com? Brenda Wallace is created a place to store the names and interesting details of women speakers for conferences. I took a snapshot of the tag cloud so far: Yay for PostgreSQL being the only database represented! So far!

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PostgreSQL Conference – Keynote commentary

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Theo Schlossnagle wrote a great blog post about Joshua Drake’s keynote. I wanted to respond to some of his comments here. I totally agree with Theo that we need to be disruptive! One criticism I have had in the past of the PostgreSQL community is that it has been too centralized, and not willing to [...]

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PostgreSQL Conference Day 1

Saturday, March 29, 2008

I just got home from the EnterpriseDB party at Jasper’s. What a fantastic day at the conference! I attended most of Brent Friedman’s Java and PostgreSQL talk. I do a little Java hacking for a legacy app, so the sysadmin-ish details about installation and upgrading were useful as I look forward to upgrading. I really, [...]

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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 and [...]

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