Emacs
About Vimgolf
Following some tweet I found myself desultory watching an episode of the awesome VimGolf in Emacs video series by Tim Visher. Those series are about picking some …
Getting more out of PostgreSQL
Notes on SQL technique, data modeling, and PostgreSQL internals — from the author of The Art of PostgreSQL. New articles are built on the free Lab so you can run every query yourself.
Emacs
Editing SQL
It’s hard to read my blog yet not know I’m using Emacs. It really is a great tool and has a lot to compare to PostgreSQL in terms of extensibility, …
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 …
Conferences
PostgreSQL for developers
As Guillaume says, we’ve been enjoying a great evening conference in Lyon 2 days ago, presenting PostgreSQL to developers. He did the first hour presenting the …
Conferences
Another awesome conf
Last week was PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 in Prague, and it’s been awesome. Many thanks to the organisers who did manage to host a very smooth conference with …
PostgreSQL
Prefixes and Ranges
It’s been a long time since I last had some time to spend on the prefix PostgreSQL extension and its prefix_range data type. With PostgreSQL 9.2 out, some users …
PostgreSQL
Reset Counter
I’ve been given a nice puzzle that I think is a good blog article opportunity, as it involves some thinking and window functions.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.3
PostgreSQL 9.2 is released! It’s an awesome new release that I urge you to consider trying and adopting, an upgrade from even 9.1 should be very well worth it, as …
Emacs
El-Get 4.1 is out
Please welcome the new stable version of El-Get, the much awaited version 4.1 has now been branched for your pleasure. It’s packed with lots of features to make …
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 …
Conferences
Autumn 2012 Conferences
The PostgreSQL community host a number of conferences all over the year, and the next ones I’m lucky enough to get to are approaching fast now. First, next month in …
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 …