{"id":765,"date":"2009-03-05T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=765"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:56:06","slug":"twitter-and-postgresql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/05\/twitter-and-postgresql\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and PostgreSQL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbnail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\/selena\/bg92u\/twitter-what-are-you-doing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20090305-fxueqxjatj3tdtw68fp6prupcf.preview.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter: What are you doing?\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080\">Uploaded with <a href=\"http:\/\/plasq.com\/\">plasq<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\">Skitch<\/a>!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-general\">pgsql-general<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hunleyd\">Doug Hunley<\/a> mentioned he&#8217;d created a twitter account for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PGSQL_Announce\">pgsql-announce<\/a>!  Way cool.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d written during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/22\/pgcon-in-ottawa-following-people-on-twitter\/\">last PgCon about Postgres and Twitter<\/a>, 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 time last year \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on twitter (or identi.ca), and I missed you &#8212; please comment below!<\/p>\n<p>Here we go (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\">Selena Deckelmann<\/a> (me!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gorthx\">Gabrielle Roth<\/a>, member of PDXPUG, main force behind Code-N-Splode<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markwkm\">Mark Wong<\/a>, performance expert, leading the Portland PostgreSQL Performance Pad and associated projects to bring regular performance testing back to PostgreSQL<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/franciscojunior\">Francisco Figueiredo Jr.<\/a>, developer maintainer of Npgsql, speaker, member of PostgreSQL.Br<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/magnushagander\">Magnus Hagander<\/a> President of Pg.EU &#8211; the European Union non-profit organization dedicated to PostgreSQL and supporting user groups in the region<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fuzzychef\">Josh Berkus<\/a>, pgsql-advocacy leader, Member of the PostgreSQL core team<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jpargudo\">Jean-Paul Argudo<\/a>, leader\/member of PostgreSQL.Fr and Treasurer of Pg.EU<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/depesz_com\">Hubert Lubaczewski <\/a>, author of a great technical blog about PostgreSQL http:\/\/www.depesz.com\/<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/samokhvalov\"> Nikolay Samokhvalov<\/a>, leader of the Moscow PostgreSQL Users Group, and consultant in Russia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kristinatufte\">Kristin Tufte<\/a>, Postgres user, member of PDXPUG and assistant professor at Portland State University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/snaga\">Satoshi Nagayasu<\/a>, member of the Japanese PostgreSQL Users Group, and spearheading meetups in Tokoyo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/br3nda\">Brenda Wallace<\/a>, moble gadget fetishist, Drupalista and Wellington, NZ PostgreSQL User Group wrangler<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ladyclementine\">Isis Borges<\/a>, Postgres enthusiast, works in the fashion industry in Puerto Alegre, Brazil<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dlangille\">Dan Langille<\/a>, DBA and organizer behind <a href=\"http:\/\/pgcon.org\">PgCon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/operatic\">Michael Brewer<\/a>, DBA and board member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresql.us\">United States PostgreSQL Association <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/linuxpoet\">Joshua Drake<\/a>, business owner, board member of the United States PostgreSQL Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/telles\">F\u00e1bio Telles Rodriguez<\/a>, active member of the PostgreSQL.Br (Brazil) and PgDay Brazil organizer.  If you speak Portuguese, you can check out Planet Postgres Br here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/planeta.postgresql.org.br\/\">http:\/\/planeta.postgresql.org.br\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fernandoike\">Fernando Ike<\/a>, member of PostgreSQL.Br<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/znmeb\">Ed Borasky<\/a>, PhD, analytics nerd, PDXPUG member<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/robtreat2\">Robert Treat<\/a>, author of PHP and PostgreSQL book, speaker, on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theory\">David Wheeler<\/a>, contributed citext most recently to PostgreSQL, consultant, maintainer of Bricolage, formerly of I Want Sandy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/turnstep\">Greg Sabino Mullane<\/a>, author of Bucardo and check_postgres.pl, maintainer of DBD::Pg, recently contributed patches to psql, on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association, my boss \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Xof\">Christophe<\/a>, volunteer at OSCON for PostgreSQL booth, DBA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronThul\">Aaron Thul<\/a>, DBA, developer, speaker on PostgreSQL on Drugs \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davidfetter\">David Fetter<\/a>, DBA, maintainer of the PostgreSQL Weekly News<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/elein\">Elein Mustain<\/a>, DBA, speaker, maintainer of <a href=\"http:\/\/varlena.com\">http:\/\/varlena.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sumwan\">Chris May<\/a>, DBA, member of PDXPUG<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cheeseinspector\">Jason Kirtland<\/a>, developer, maintainer of SQLAlchemy, Pythonista<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eggyknap\">Josh Tolley<\/a>, developer, DBA, statistics nerd, author of PL\/LOLCODE and pgsnmpd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mage2k\">Erik Jones<\/a>, Portland resident, Pythonista, made a cool python-based partitioning tool (pgpartitioner)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/niczak\">Nicholas Kreidberg<\/a>, Nevada resident, PostgreSQL user<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Crad\">Gavin Roy<\/a>, DBA, Business dude, Myyearbook.com, speaker, on the board of of United States PostgreSQL Association<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cbbrowne\">Chris Browne<\/a>, Slony maintainer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hunleyd\">Douglas Hunley<\/a>, creator of pgsql_announce on twitter \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/larryrtx\">Larry Rosenman<\/a>, PostgreSQL supporter, help with DNS for PostgreSQL.org, contributor (some of the syslog* stuff in version 7.0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organizations: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetpostgres \">Planet Postgres<\/a>, posts links to all Planet PostgreSQL blog links <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pdxpug\">PDXPUG<\/a>, Portland, OR PostgreSQL Users Group<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PGSQL_Announce\">pgsql-announce<\/a>, Douglas Hunley&#8217;s mirror!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded with plasq&#8216;s Skitch! On pgsql-general, Doug Hunley mentioned he&#8217;d created a twitter account for pgsql-announce! Way cool. I&#8217;d written during last PgCon about Postgres and Twitter, and I figured it was time for a new list of Postgres-related people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/05\/twitter-and-postgresql\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,16,108,20,97,9,11],"tags":[645,226,629,647,624,117,635,626],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-pdxpug","category-pgcon","category-portland","category-postgres","category-postgresql","category-user-groups","tag-community","tag-identica","tag-pdxpug","tag-postgres","tag-postgresql","tag-social-networking","tag-twitter","tag-user-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}