Software Programming
Scratch that itch: M-x mailq
Nowadays, most people would think that email is something simple, you just setup your preferred client (that’s called a MUA) with some information such as the smtp …
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.
Projects
switch-window reaches 0.8
I wanted to play with the idea of using the whole keyboard for my switch-window utility, but wondered how to get those keys in the right order and all. Finally found …
PostgreSQL
Window Functions example remix
The drawback of hosting a static only website is, obviously, the lack of comments. What happens actually, though, is that I receive very few comments by direct mail. As I …
PostgreSQL
Window Functions example
So, when 8.4 came out there was all those comments about how getting window functions was an awesome addition. Now, it seems that a lot of people seeking for help in …
PostgreSQL
Synchronous Replication
Although the new asynchronous replication facility that ships with 9.0 ain’t released to the wide public yet, our hackers hero are already working on the …
Software Programming
Want to share your recipes?
Yes, that’s another el-get related entry. It seems to take a lot of my attention these days. After having setup the git repository so that you can update el-get …
PostgreSQL
Happy Numbers
After discovering the excellent Gwene service, which allows you to subscribe to newsgroups to read RSS content ( blogs, planets, commits, etc), I came to read this nice …
Emacs
welcome el-get scratch installer
A very good remark from some users: installing and managing el-get should be simpler. They wanted both an easy install of the thing, and a way to be able to manage it …
PostgreSQL
Playing with bit strings
The idea of the day ain’t directly from me, I’m just helping with a very thin subpart of the problem. The problem, I can’t say much about, let’s …
Emacs
el-get news
I’ve been receiving some requests for el-get, some of them even included a patch. So now there’s support for bzr, CSV and http-tar, augmenting the existing …
Projects
el-get and dim-switch-window status update
Thanks to you readers of Planet Emacsen taking the time to try those pieces of emacs lisp found in my blog, and also the time to comment on them, some bugs have been …
PostgreSQL
Editing constants in constraints
We’re using constants in some constraints here, for example in cases where several servers are replicating to the same federating one: each origin server has his …