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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 […]

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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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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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an example for upcoming very brief normalization talk (part 1)

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

I maintain a small database that prints out UPC labels and tracks serial numbers. It does an OK job at this, but the code is starting to get a little crusty.
I got a wild hair today and decided that I’d had enough with a really annoying update process. Here’s the table I was working with: […]

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