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 …
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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 …
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, …