Weekly tweet digest for 2011-03-27

Most entertaining squirrel proof feeder http://flic.kr/p/9rPWGD #
Radioactivity measurements culled from PDFs #smalldata #ftw #fukushima http://chesnok.com/u/M #
Did you know you can still attend the JSConf Party on May 1? http://jsconfus2011.eventbrite.com/ (details: http://2011.jsconf.us/) #
#protip opening a filehandle to /dev/null with psycopg2 and copy_expert makes it so you can get the # of rows inserted by COPY #
#protip you can grab the result from .statusmessage #psycopg2 #
In nyc! For #pgeast #
Headed to birdland for the evening. Yay! #
Mirror mirrormirror http://t.co/v2u7MdL #
Made it to Kevin Grittner's talk on true serializability at #pgeast /cc @emmaemailtech #
We now recognize "dangerous structures" in postgres #pgeast #awesome #
It would totally be ok for the air conditioning to turn off now that it is 65F in this room on a snowy day. #pgeast #
The implementation of SSI is based on a SIGMOD paper published in 2008. This is the first known production implementation of it! #pgeast #
relevant papers for SSI: http://chesnok.com/u/V http://chesnok.com/u/U #
some folks at MIT are using a modified version of Postgres 8.2 to create a transaction aware version of memcached #pgeast #
and so they're interested in SSI because it is non-blocking, could register a transaction to hold predicate locks #pgeast #
Having good chats at #pgeast about upcoming PL summit May 21 with core devs. Sign up at: http://chesnok.com/u/a #
Thinking about a #smalldata lightning talk for #mysqlconf Submit yours at: http://bit.ly/fdMhF5 #
Just saw a demo of our new URL shortner for planet.postgresql.org: postgr.es 🙂 #pgeast thx @magnushagander #
Who uses postgresql in Chicago? #
My rough list of talks and people (and the wifi keys) at #pgeast http://chesnok.com/u/W #
"People confuse mysql adoption with commercial success." -Ed Boyajian #pgeast #
Why is postgres disruptive right now? Because of the need for a budget strategy for #bigdata BI, DW (need to overcome licensing) #pgeast #
hard to not be annoyed by the meritocracy myth. #
awesome lunch with @dbness, rob, @davidfetter, @devrimgunduz, @rusty_conover and others at #pgeast dbs, facebook identity, teaching devs #
in the SSL talk #pgeast #
discussing Dutch government's adoption of 2-factor SMS text authentication in relation to ssl/certs/phone-based auth http://chesnok.com/u/X #
At @dbness's talk on ORMs at #pgeast http://t.co/jfOOpqz #
tl;dr: no designers and no women because open source isn't feminist: http://vi.to/designers-and-women-in-open-source.html #
"Trust is for people with poor surveillance." -Col. James R. Trahan, USMC (@dbness's dad) #pgeast #
Oh: "there is so much low hanging nonfree fruit" #
Beards and Sean http://flic.kr/p/9sNDwv #
The real beards and Sean http://t.co/XSccXbh #
in to #pgeast early. breakfast sandwich. water. in Jeff Davis' talk on range types #pgeast #
had hilarious conversation with John Scoles (http://chesnok.com/u/Z) about his work studying narwals. #pgeast #
(apparently, the 'r' is rolled when you say narwal) #
Omg coffee #pgeast #
in "large customers want postgresql too" http://bit.ly/eFcgEU #pgeast #
requirement: the cobol post-processer generating a C module to run SQL has to run faster than it does on the mainframe #lulz #pgeast #
"when we can save $250k, that's enough for me. an extra couple million is nothing to these guys for licenses." #
"when we can save $250k, that's enough for me. an extra couple million is nothing to these guys for licenses." #pgeast #enterprisey #
"COBOL program never knows what happened to it." #pgeast #
experience contributing ECPG code for caching queries to #postgres "was fairly painless and was in the next release" #pgeast #
Magnus' first slide #pgeast #jdcon http://t.co/1AiX5Xi #
Reminder: COPY API is newly exposed in PostgreSQL 9.1 #pgeast #fdw #
postgres_fdw will be in 9.2, so keep using dblink for now #pgeast #fdw #
Second COBOL reference in a talk at #pgeast #drinkinggame #
Andrew's ongoing work on Foreign Data Wrappers for #postgres https://github.com/adunstan #fdw #
"must rescan return the same tuples as the first scan?" "only if you want it to return correct results." #pgeast #
"Private cloud is a dead end." "You lose out on all the economies of scale that are the benefits of the cloud." -Heroku #pgeast #
OH: "there's a target for beer here." regarding VMWare guy who can't talk about whether they'll ever offer a public cloud #
"i don't expect marketing fluff" -audience member #pgeast #ftw #cloudpanel #
Oh cool, yet another thing implemented as a PL in Postgres: http://bit.ly/fhh9hr #
in jon erdman's pgq and monitoring talk #pgeast #
Pretty much everyone is hiring at #PgEast #
OH: "we pay about 30k per terabyte." #
Just met dba at Donors Choose. Such a great organization and they use postgres! http://t.co/hJNoqlP #pgeast #
The guy in the sweatshirt just punched someone in the street http://t.co/kaRfgNA #
Made it! http://t.co/EmpCC21 #
Experiencing @robertmhaas disaster recovery interpretive dance. #pgeast http://t.co/V50pl99 #
"Turning off fsync is webscale." -@robertmhaas #pgeast #
just out of the @robertmhaas talk on WAL, now in @nzoschke's talk on cloud ops w/ postgres #pgeast #
Wiki page for PostgreSQL + Cloud: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Cloud #pgeast #
listening to @tjake talk about Cassandra as compared to PostgreSQL (he's a committer) #pgeast #
Doesn't that postgres-R replication project use a gossip-based protocol? #pgeast #
NoSQL -> MoSQL 😀 #pgeast #cassandra #
Candy http://flic.kr/p/9tcLQr #
More accuracy in signage http://flic.kr/p/9th9k7 #
Highline http://flic.kr/p/9tttgz #
After the rain, gallery in chelsea http://flic.kr/p/9txKyj #