Conferences
Asko Oja talks about Skype architecture
In this russian page you’ll see a nice presentation of Skype databases architectures by Asko Oja himself. It’s the talk at Russian PostgreSQL Community …
Posts
PostgreSQL
Skytools ticker daemon and londiste
One of the difficulties in getting to understand and configure londiste reside in the relation between the ticker and the replication. This question was raised once more …
PostgreSQL
Comparing Londiste and Slony
In the page about Skytools I’ve encouraged people to ask some more questions in order for me to be able to try and answer them. That just happened, as usual on the …
PostgreSQL
Controling HOT usage in 8.3
As it happens, I’ve got some environments where I want to make sure HOT ( aka Heap Only Tuples) is in use. Because we’re doing so much updates a second that I …
PostgreSQL
Londiste Trick
So, you’re using londiste and the ticker has not been running all night long, due to some restart glitch in your procedures, and the on call admin didn’t …
Emacs
Useful emacs trick
Watch Kevin Kelly’s Talk here, it’s about trying to predict what the Internet will look like 5 thousands days from now.
debian
emacs-snapshot
If you want to live on the bleeding edge, it’s easy enough to get a non existing release of GNU Emacs under debian sid, thanks to http://emacs.orebokech.com/. The …
PostgreSQL
new site, using new software
Oh and check out the skytools page too. Emacs Muse is so great a project that instead of just working on how to publish a website with this tool, I found myself editing a …
Software Programming
Emacs Muse powered blog
So finaly a blogging software for geeks exists? The problem with communication is that you think it happened.
Software Programming
Fake entry
This is a test of a fake entry to see how muse will manage this. With some SQL inside: SELECT * FROM planet.postgresql.org WHERE author = "dim";