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twittering on 2009-05-22

  • With @aaronthul again for #pgcon http://flickr.com/photos/selenamarie/3553423904 #
  • Thanks for an informative talk, Len! (via @pdxpug) #
  • the postgresql codebase is more than 20 years old, and we’re designing to last for another 20 years. stringent reqs come from that #pgcon #
  • listening to tom lane and bruce momjian give a talk about contributing code to postgres #pgcon #
  • “you need to walk before you run.” -tom lane #pgcon #
  • @gorthx would appreciate the current slide 😀 #pgcon #
  • “don’t start here.” #pgcon http://flickr.com/photos/selenamarie/3553525425 #
  • “I take on things that seem insane.” Bruce Momjian #pgcon #
  • @WomenWhoTech 🙂 #
  • question: “do you find that working so publicly is helpful?” #pgcon #
  • “You rely on other people to spot your mistakes. Now, I feel more secure than if I was working in the corner.” -tom lane #pgcon #
  • RT @andyparsons: RT @stevenbjohnson:Fun API event at outside.in last night. See http://near.ly/ to get live Twitter updates on news with … #
  • near.ly is pretty. looking forward to updates from @nearlybot for some hyperlocal news. #
  • “trying to use the strengths of everyone in the organization. it’s not a single cowboy-type group.” Bruce Momjian #pgcon #
  • “Design your interface first.” (to get your patch into postgres) #pgcon #
  • Contributing to the community first helps your credibility and makes ppl more likely to respond/help you with your patches #pgcon #
  • Just updated the wiki Submitting A Patch documentation 🙂 #pgcon http://bit.ly/jklti #
  • delicious schwarmas for lunch because of matthew wilcox’s leadership #pgcon #
  • gonna wander over to temporal data talk #pgcon #
  • didn’t realize that @pgsnake was going to use twitter to start new internet memes: ‘git is the new dtrace.’ #pgcon #
  • @eggyknap @xdeadcodex 2>&1 /dev/null; 😛 #
  • happy birthday @gorthx!! 🙂 #
  • watching a talk on FluidDB from @terrycojones #pgcon #
  • esther dyson is helping fund the development of FluidDB #pgcon #
  • enjoying @terrycojones’ speaking style. nice when hackers are eloquent and talking about design 🙂 #pgcon #
  • deli.cio.us changed the world by making people think about tagging (writing) the web -@terrycojones #pgcon #
  • “the main thing we do as computer scientists is trying to come up with better representations.” @terrycojones #pgcon #
  • comparing arab 2 binary 2 roman numerals for arithmetic 2 show representation changing difficulty of problem thru representation #pgcon #
  • cool idea for a fluidDB hack: take color blindness information to automatically change colors for people #pgcon #
  • if you have a successful application, people will want access to your data – not your crippled API #fluiddb #pgcon #
  • setting up for the lightning talks! #
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twittering on 2009-05-21

  • getting ready for the keynote #pgcon #
  • infiltration of !postgres community is nearly complete. welcome, @pgsnake! #pgcon #
  • OH “I’m not the sales guy.” #pgcon 🙂 #
  • thanks #pythian for dinner and great pub conversation last night. i think @paulvallee helped get @pgsnake into twitter. #pgcon #
  • @pgsnake you can link to conversations (evidence for later! :D), and there’s a firehose pointed from twitter to google. #
  • lightning talks for #pgcon are shaping up! http://tr.im/m0nD #
  • @gorthx the talks will be taped! #pgcon #
  • @yodermk go for it! #pgcon #
  • RT @niczak: MySQL: Forked beyond repair? — http://tinyurl.com/ocy586 — I definitely saw this coming, I see a bright future for PostgreSQL. #
  • “anytime you get a new piece of hardware you should benchmark it!” greg smith #pgcon #
  • @fuzzychef i don’t claim that. again, i think we should watch, learn and be prepared to solve these same problems. #
  • @fuzzychef and wrt community involvement, postgres has done things right that other projects now emulate. #
  • @brampitoyo happy birthday 🙂 #
  • “Have a 7200 RPM drive — 120 commits per minute is the speed of light as far as commits are concerned!” greg smith #pgcon #
  • Why does your computer get slower the more you’re using it? Because you’re filling up your disk and starting to use the slower part #pgcon #
  • @krinstinatufte happy birthday! 😀 #
  • woo! greg smith linked to our presentations about filesystem I/O http://tr.im/m1bm #pgcon #
  • notes from greg’s talk, and his awesome slides will be up soon. http://tr.im/m1fp #pgcon #
  • in the openstreetmap talk #pgcon #
  • RT @brianaker: New release of Drizzle! http://is.gd/C6Rr #
  • @brampitoyo having a fabulous time. giving a talk at 5pm, and then another tomorrow morning. busy busy! 🙂 #
  • @SueB24 is true at a lot of conferences. would like it if more women submitted talks. travel costs (time & $) were an issue this year #
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twittering on 2009-05-20

  • up early for the postgresql developer’s day #pgcon #
  • RT @andyparsons: outside.in is seeking a rock star engineer to join the team! http://bit.ly/imfcU #
  • @jpargudo sad you’re not here! also missing @simon_riggs. #
  • hanging out in the developer meeting with @eggyknap, @magnushander, @fuzzychef, @davidfetter, tom lane, dave page, greg stark & more #pgcon #
  • and now we have some swing music. #pgcon #
  • @franciscojunior sorry you aren’t here! #
  • generating a context diff with git: GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c git-diff-index -p HEAD #pgcon #
  • major adoption issues for postgres: replication, replication, replication #pgcon #
  • and @eggyknap leaves for his PL/LOLCODE tutorial this afternoon… #pgcon #
  • discussing modules and plugins at the developer meeting #pgcon #
  • @elecnix there’s already a !postgres group 🙂 #
  • @elecnix i stick to !postgres for clarity and fewer keystrokes 😀 #
  • @schmichael no. use sqlite 🙂 #
  • discussing whether postgresql itself might join the standards committee in the developer’s meeting #pgcon #
  • @markwkm the SQL standards committee #
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twittering on 2009-05-16

  • sleepy. this is just going to have to wait until tomorrow. #
  • @bryanzug haha thank you. i have to say, it was a little different giving that talk in seattle than portland 😉 #
  • RT @webnov8: After writing pure #Scala interfaces for #mysql and #postgresql: postgresql has a better protocol design and documentation. #
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twittering on 2009-05-15