Friday, September 18, 2009
On Tuesday, I invited a group of people from PDXPUG over to my house for chili, beer and patch review. PostgreSQL has what we’re calling a ‘commitfest‘ every two months where we buckle down and try to review and commit (or reject) the patches submitted over the last few weeks. Webb and Gabrielle had the [...]
Just before heading off to PgCon, I wrote about offline community and how it has positively impacted the tech community in Portland, OR. Specifically, I talked about the factors I thought encouraged women to participate.
My own experience with Postgres has been incredibly positive and welcoming. I always wish that I had more time to [...]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
At Code-n-Splode last night, we first heard Christie Koehler give a great talk on CodeIgniter, the one PHP web framework endorsed by Rasmus Lerdorf, original author of PHP. She went over the pros/cons, details of how you go about installing and then using CodeIgniter, and then showed a very detailed example from her recent [...]
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Also tagged change, howto, portland, portlandrocks, whaticando, whatyoucando, women, womenintech
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On pgsql-general, Doug Hunley mentioned he’d created a twitter account for pgsql-announce! Way cool.
I’d written during last PgCon about Postgres and Twitter, and I figured it was time for a new list of Postgres-related people who I follow! Especially since a few people commented that Twitter was a waste of [...]
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Also tagged identi.ca, pdxpug, postgres, postgresql, social networking, twitter, user groups
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Audrey started a meme that I liked – so here’s my answers:
Did I earn a living? Yes, I did. I’ve never been happier with my work, who I work with and who I work for. I surprised myself a little with a job change that has me working at home, and co-working at various [...]
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