- RT @dukeleto: We need #parrot and #postgres hackers to join us in hacking on PL/Parrot http://bit.ly/2C04TY , #plparrot on freenode #
- The #GSoC mentors manual looks awesome. Thanks so much @lhawthorn and Adam Hyde @flossmanuals for facilitating #
- OH: I'm getting a git tramp stamp. advanced-#gsoc #
Monthly Archives: October 2009
twittering on 2009-10-22
- @samv are you coming for the mentor summit? #
- @dukeleto HEY! What am I? Chopped liver? in reply to dukeleto #
- protip: circular references – always good for trolling! #
- doing our last pass at reviewing and updating before we send the book to the presses #gsoc #flossmanuals #
- still editing… #gsoc #flossmanuals #
twittering on 2009-10-21
- uneventful travel, followed by good conversation. now time to call it a day. #
- headed off to second meeting of the day. hoping for bacon. (kicking off the mentoring book sprint!) #
- getting a tour of flossmanuals.net from Adam Hyde #gsoc #
- waiting for @dukeleto to share his git repo for our notes. #gsoc #
- looking forward to the next iteration of flossmanuals: booki! #gsoc #
- So, what do you think are the features of FLOSS culture that distinguish it from other cultures? (i'm writing a book chapter!) #
- @edaypdx yeah, like those keywords – transparency, directness, peer review in reply to edaypdx #
- @edavis10 yes — although not sure i agree with 'everyone as equals'.. i typically see hierarchy, although not always explicit in reply to edavis10 #
- so full of indian food. #
- OH: Typewriter manufacturers all over the world are going to gang up on me now! #
- @robertmhaas LOL! in reply to robertmhaas #
- @dlangille yes, indeed! in reply to dlangille #
- .@skud also see @gorthx & my's 'running a successful user group' talk from OSCON 2008 – http://tr.im/CADC #
- what we're working on: http://tr.im/CB0A, my contribution so far: http://tr.im/CB0z #gsoc #
- OH: "It's like drinking a salad!" #
- @thesethings no, bloody marys. in reply to thesethings #
- discussing barriers to student participation, and setting expectations for success #gsoc #docsprint #
- whew, done for now. more editing after dinner! #gsoc #
twittering on 2009-10-20
- trying to avoid tech event collisions is hard work. #
- @leandrod huh. i found the salary info to be interesting – nearly equal at high levels, but big disparity at entry points, mid-level. in reply to leandrod #
- i <3 http://packages.endpoint.com #
- @turoczy 2? #
- RT @gchaix: PDX food cards gone horribly horribly wrong: http://twurl.nl/gfwo0h #
- headed to PDX -> SJC #
- reviewing backup routines, waiting for replication sets to finish syncing. free wireless @PDX rocks. #
- RT @neil_conway: O'Reilly Radar article on our recent MapReduce Online work: http://tr.im/CtlE #
twittering on 2009-10-19
- @turoczy happy birthday 🙂 #
- until this morning, i actually did not know what 'natch' meant. thanks urban dictionary! #
- @snaga hah! Thanks! 🙂 it's definitely fun working with colleagues living in Philly, Louisiana, Utah and NYC every day. in reply to snaga #
- @petdance heh. #8 got me. in reply to petdance #
- @caseorganic consider flying to a border town and driving over. in reply to caseorganic #
- sad i won't be in town! RT @lawduck: Veganocracy rules this week for #pdxbreakfast – Tin Shed, Thursday, 8:30 am: http://tr.im/CjWY #
- @snaga will I see you at the PostgreSQL Conference in Tokyo next month? I can share what I've learned working w/ very distributed team. in reply to snaga #
- @darkixion no, was for a long time, but now i'm vegetarianish. #
- RT @lhawthorn: report from the #NCWIT on Women in IT. DATA. If you think there's no problem, you might be surprised. http://bit.ly/1Y7SQt #
- from http://bit.ly/1Y7SQt : Nearly half of women say mentoring would help retain technical employees #
- from http://bit.ly/1Y7SQt: "women & men say they would hire ppl w/résumés w/male names rather than female even tho identical" #
- from http://bit.ly/1Y7SQt: men report finding more informal prof.dev. opportunities than women (82% vs 62%) formalize to help fix. #
- @stewartsmith study was US-specific, so hard to say. anecdotally – i hear similar things from UK/AU; less so India/Phillipines/EU #
- re: hack girls – yahoo! developer network has been incredibly supportive of diversity initiatives. good people, doing good things. #
- heh. RT @stewartsmith: wants to magically be transported to Portland for @OpenSQLCamp #
Weekly tweet digest for 2009-10-18
- gave in and wore a jacket today. it's cold outside! #
- RT @rebastiality 'git init': a demure repo with a .git dir and a checkout. 'git init –bare': rock out with no checkout […] #
- "It is time to recognise how odd and counter-productive is the optimism on which we have grown up." Alain de Botton http://bit.ly/t4iUL #
- @Theory kill firefox 😉 #
- @i2pi hate that. but screen – FTW! in reply to i2pi #
- it just feels like today was 1 million hours long already. #
- Hmmm. Waiting for haircut, trying to find a chess opponent for a quick game. Failing. #
- hair is cut: http://skitch.com/selena/nn78k/cam #
- @pdxsucks step 1: don't tweet about it until after dessert. #
- mustering self for rainy bike ride. i've gone soft, @PortlandRain. #
- @samokhvalov maybe next year we try again in-person at #highload! 😀 in reply to samokhvalov #
- um… ps -ef | grep "Google Chrome" | wc -l : 206 #
- @jfroebe procs. Chrome is process, not thread-based and I didn't bother to count threads before I started killing stuff. in reply to jfroebe #
- @jonjensen0 oh, just BLAME THE VICTIM! i only had five, #srsly! and thanks for the earth-saving pointer. in reply to jonjensen0 #
- @magnushagander awww. 🙂 #
- i <3 savepoints #
- @FallenPegasus haha yes. in reply to FallenPegasus #
- would be cool to know when people turn certain music tracks up. or 4 my music player to use that info to prefer tracks for *me*. #
- RT @caseorganic: Keeping your phone charger unplugged for a year saves as much energy as skipping a single hot bath. http://bit.ly/1bQz05 #
- putting cute pictures of goats into this presentation #bucardo #postgres #
- PSA: check '$?' when you want to know a return code value, cuz that's what nagios cares about. not text returned by plugins. #
- its like the sun is coming out just for my bike ride downtown. #osbridge #
- And so it begins. Planning for Open Source Bridge 2010 is officially underway! Want to help? http://is.gd/4khJJ #osb10 (via @osbridge) #
- @kakariki ugh. Glad you're getting outta there. in reply to kakariki #
- and it's time for some coffee. #
- @jwgoerlich awesome! thanks. in reply to jwgoerlich #
- RT @busproject: Who's got the bike-commutin'-est city in N America? Yeah that's right-We do. Take that, Vancouver! http://bit.ly/4Xqy8 #
- getting ready for @pdxpug meeting tonight at #freegeek #
- @GEOpdx we'd love your help! 🙂 definitely subscribe to the mailing list.. just ramping things up the next couple weeks. in reply to GEOpdx #
- @Seeger yeah, i hear you. still hurts even tho u know others have your back. in reply to Seeger #
- wondering how @gorthx & @markwkm are doing on their road trip. #
- @dietrich something red and sweet? i have this urge to garnish this drink with jalapeños. in reply to dietrich #
- at PDX, waiting for the plane to the SEA #postgres conf. making last minute tweaks to #bucardo slides. #
- slides for my talk today: http://www.slideshare.net/selenamarie/bucardo #
- Whew! Talk is done. Now listening to "keynote" at #postgres conference #
- considering going to honeyhole for lunch http://www.thehoneyhole.com/daymenu.php #jdcon #postgres #
- Wishing I had brought more snacks with me to the airport. Boarding plane back to PDX. #
- @magnushagander thanks 🙂 maybe I will submit it for FOSDEM…. in reply to magnushagander #
- @aurynn I know!! We will meet again 🙂 in reply to aurynn #
- @aurynn oh sweet! lets talk early mon/tues. i leave for san jose in the evening on tues. in reply to aurynn #
- heading out for @osbridge fundraising meeting. #
- looking over last year's opening slides for @osbridge. makes me smile. http://tr.im/Cgqu #
- RT @cshirky: RT @mkapor: Microsoft no longer has a monopoly that is critical to the future of computing (Bruce Chizen) http://bit.ly/1k4r84 #
twittering on 2009-10-18
- @aurynn oh sweet! lets talk early mon/tues. i leave for san jose in the evening on tues. in reply to aurynn #
- heading out for @osbridge fundraising meeting. #
- looking over last year's opening slides for @osbridge. makes me smile. http://tr.im/Cgqu #
- RT @cshirky: RT @mkapor: Microsoft no longer has a monopoly that is critical to the future of computing (Bruce Chizen) http://bit.ly/1k4r84 #
twittering on 2009-10-17
- at PDX, waiting for the plane to the SEA #postgres conf. making last minute tweaks to #bucardo slides. #
- slides for my talk today: http://www.slideshare.net/selenamarie/bucardo #
- Whew! Talk is done. Now listening to "keynote" at #postgres conference #
- considering going to honeyhole for lunch http://www.thehoneyhole.com/daymenu.php #jdcon #postgres #
- Wishing I had brought more snacks with me to the airport. Boarding plane back to PDX. #
- @magnushagander thanks 🙂 maybe I will submit it for FOSDEM…. in reply to magnushagander #
- @aurynn I know!! We will meet again 🙂 in reply to aurynn #
Bucardo talk up
For those that don’t follow the End Point blog, I just posted my slides for the Bucardo talk I gave this morning in seattle.
twittering on 2009-10-16
- @GEOpdx we'd love your help! 🙂 definitely subscribe to the mailing list.. just ramping things up the next couple weeks. in reply to GEOpdx #
- @Seeger yeah, i hear you. still hurts even tho u know others have your back. in reply to Seeger #
- wondering how @gorthx & @markwkm are doing on their road trip. #
- @dietrich something red and sweet? i have this urge to garnish this drink with jalapeños. in reply to dietrich #