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Drupal + PostgreSQL: review some patches, folks!

Monday, June 16, 2008

am i the girl, the bat or the heart? you decide!
I’ve been working on a site that uses Drupal for a few months now. And I’m living dangerously with CCK, Views and, as of last week, Organic Groups.
I found this sharp moderation module (Modr8) last week, and then quickly realized that I wanted to be […]

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Call for proposals for PDXPUG PgDay, due June 20, 2008

Monday, June 2, 2008

(Photo from PgDay 2007)
Please submit a talk! The call will be open for 2 weeks and proposals are due June 20th. Follow the link for details on submitting.
http://pugs.postgresql.org/node/400

PDXPUG PgDay will be on July 20, 2008. This is a one-day conference happening the day before OSCON at the Oregon Convention Center.
We are inviting anyone […]

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PgCon 2008 - big announcements, community conversations

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

PgCon was a very exciting conference, with a lot of people from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America traveling to be part of it. I read that 175 people attended, and based on how crowded both parties were, it’s not hard to believe!
The biggest announcement for me was that the PostgreSQL Europe is finally a […]

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PgCon Lightning talk: User Groupalooza

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I gave a Lightning talk today about PostgreSQL User Groups. I wasn’t able to get through ALL my slides - but I only had to rush through the last three. (click on the cat below to download - 5MB)

Lightning talks are some of my favorite sessions. I got to announce the incorporation […]

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At PgCon in Ottawa, Day 1

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Oops, this got published early. I’ll be updating this shortly.. probably over lunch.
Magnus posted some photos already!
Summary of last night:
We had a great time last night at the pub for registration, and then over to the Yahoo! party. We had fun talking databases, beer, and the difficulty in trying to understand Australian accents. […]

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PgCon in Ottawa - following people on twitter

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I’m in Ottawa at PgCon and listening to Bruce Momjian give the keynote.
We have a few people who’ve joined Twitter in the last couple months and are posting their thoughts through the conference. Try following @crad, @fuzzychef, @franciscojunior and @selenamarie (me) for our up-to-the-minute updates!
I’ll be giving a lightning talk this afternoon around 5:30pm […]

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Bar Camp Portland: what a weekend!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

I’m inspired.
I’m still buzzing from BarCampPortland. I loved every minute of it, and managed to learn a ton from all the amazing people in Portland. I met a ton of new people, and started several more projects
Over the course of two days, I ran two sessions. The first was about PostgreSQL:

We had a […]

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pl/lolcode slides

Thursday, May 1, 2008

There are lots of cool things about PostgreSQL, but one of my favorites is Joshua Tolley’s PL/LOLCODE implementation. He says he’s about to have more time to work on it, so watch out for updates.
In the meantime, I gave a presentation on lolcode to the Portland PerlMongers in April:

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Roadtrip to LinuxFest NW with PostgreSQL!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

PDXPUG and USPgA are headed to LinuxFest NW in Bellingham, WA this weekend. We have a booth we’ll be staffing 9:30AM-5:00PM Saturday and 9:30AM-4:00PM Sunday. Mark Wong will be presenting ptop Saturday April 26th, at 10am in room Haskell-111. Don’t miss it!
Seems like a great lineup this year - tons of Drupal, how to use […]

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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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