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 …
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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 …
Conferences
PGDay France 2012
The french PostgreSQL Conference, pgday.fr, was yesterday in Lyon. We had a very good time and a great schedule with a single track packed with 7 talks, addressing a …
Emacs
M-x recompile
A friend of mine just asked me for advice to tweak some Emacs features, and I think that’s really typical of using Emacs: rather than getting used to the way things …
Conferences
Back From PgCon
Last week was the annual PostgreSQL Hackers gathering in Canada, thanks to the awesome pgcon conference. This year’s issue has been packed with good things, …
PostgreSQL
Clean PGQ Subconsumers
Now that you’re all using the wonders of Cooperative Consumers to help you efficiently and reliably implement your business constraints and offload them from the …
PostgreSQL
PGQ Coop Consumers
While working a new PostgreSQL architecture for an high scale project that used to be in the top 10 of internet popular web sites (in terms of visitors), I needed to be …
PostgreSQL
Extension White Listing
PostgreSQL 9.1 includes proper extension support, as you might well know if you ever read this very blog here. Some hosting facilities are playing with PostgreSQL at big …
Conferences
Battle Language à la Marmite
J’ai eu la chance hier soir de participer à la Battle Language à la Marmite, où j’avais proposé de parler de Emacs Lisp, proposition qui s’est …
PostgreSQL
pgbouncer munin plugin
It seems that if you search for a munin plugin for pgbouncer it’s easy enough to reach an old page of mine with an old version of my plugin, and a broken link. …