Software Programming
My First Slashdot Effect
Thanks to the Postgres Weekly issue #89 and a post to Hacker News front page (see Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp it well seems that I …
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New release: pgloader 3.2
PostgreSQL comes with an awesome bulk copy protocol and tooling best known as the COPY and \copy commands. Being a transactional system, PostgreSQL COPY implementation …
Software Programming
Turn your PostgreSQL queries into Charts
Earlier this year we did compare compare Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB then talked about PostgreSQL, Aggregates and histograms where we even produced a nice …
Software Programming
Emacs Muse meets Common Lisp
This blog of mine is written in the very good Emacs Muse format, that I find much more friendly to writing articles than both org-mode and markdown-mode that I both use …
Software Programming
from Parsing to Compiling
Last week came with two bank holidays in a row, and I took the opportunity to design a command language for pgloader. While doing that, I unexpectedly stumbled accross a …
Software Programming
Lost in scope
Thanks to Mickael on twitter I got to read an article about loosing scope with some common programming languages. As the blog article Lost in scope references functional …
Software Programming
M-x ack
I’ve been asked about how to integrate the ack tool (you know, the one that is better than grep) into Emacs today. Again. And I just realized that I didn’t …
Software Programming
CL Happy Numbers
A while ago I stumbled upon Happy Numbers as explained in programming praxis, and offered an implementation of them in SQL and in Emacs Lisp. Yeah, I know. Why not, …
Software Programming
Concurrent Hello
Thanks to Mickael on twitter I ran into that article about implementing a very basic Hello World! program as a way to get into a new concurrent language or facility. The …
Software Programming
Fast and stupid?
I stumbled onto an interesting article about performance when using python, called Python performance the easy(ish) way, where the author tries to get the bet available …
Software Programming
Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle
Peter Norvig published a while ago a very nice article titled Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle wherein he presents a programmatic approach to solving that puzzle game. The …
Software Programming
Elisp Breadcrumbs
A breadcrumb is a navigation aid. I just added one to this website, so that it gets easier to browse from any article to its local and parents indexes and back to …