I’m a major contributor to the PostgreSQL project. I am part of the Press team, work on user group creation and maintenance, and occasionally hack on core.

Talks about Postgres:

• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: PostgreSQL 9.1 – features overview of our upcoming release (est September 2011 release date)

Here are a few of my popular blog posts about Postgres:

• Where Meritocracy Fails: I talk about what Postgres is great at: Making Great Code. The headline came from a conversation about minority recruitment to open source projects, and the other posts by Robert Haas related to this are worth a read.
• PostgreSQL at MySQL Users Conference: The sessions: I was part of the program committee for MySQL Users Conference 2011, and there were 13 sessions related to Postgres
• Explaining MVCC in Postgres: System Defined columns: I share some of my diagrams from a talk on MVCC inside of Postgres
• Snow Leopard and PostgreSQL Installation help links: A bit dated, but likely somewhat helpful. I recommend Homebrew to folks these days, and installation is just “brew install postgresql”.
• psql and file CSV exports: Ancient, but still useful tips on doing CSV-like exports from the psql command-line.
• Filesystem IO at the Linux Plumbers Conference: talk analyzing filesystem bottlenecks while running DBT-2 benchmark on Linux with Postgres-like workload
• An Opportunity for Postgres: My thoughts on the Oracle acquisition of Sun
• The future of free and open source models

Trip to Nigeria to teach PostgreSQL:

• Nigeria: PostgreSQL Training Day 1
• Exploring Nigeria over a weekend
• Last day in Nigeria: short summary
• How to unrig an election: Me telling the story of the team that unrigged an election in Ondo State in five minutes.

User Groups and Postgres:

• Leading without being in charge: My thoughts on what creating, running and maintaining user groups is all about
• User Group idea: present what you do for work
• User Group Idea: patch review party
• User Group Idea: The After Party
• Waffle-induced development: the importance of food as an incentive
• Offline Communities: a short piece I wrote for OSBR about the role of user groups in open source community
• PostgreSQL Conference East Keynote commentary: about how Postgres needs to be disruptive!
• User Groupalooza: My first lightning talk and first talk ever at a Postgres conference
• A year of PDXPUG
• Group cohesiveness: short essay on the things that make people stick together.
• My thoughts about community management