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PgCon Lightning talk: User Groupalooza

I gave a Lightning talk today about PostgreSQL User Groups. I wasn’t able to get through ALL my slides – but I only had to rush through the last three. (click on the cat below to download – 5MB)

splash for user group talk

Lightning talks are some of my favorite sessions. I got to announce the incorporation of PostgreSQL-EU! We had a talk about DBIx::Cache (which you should all check out!), a cool open source lab in Japan that Hiroshi Saito works for (only for Japanese, but very cool), Gavin Roy talked about Staplr and a new benchmarking tool called Playr that was just released on Thursday, and six more talks! We hope to publish the rest of the slides shortly.

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At PgCon in Ottawa, Day 1

Oops, this got published early. I’ll be updating this shortly.. probably over lunch.

Magnus posted some photos already!

Summary of last night:

We had a great time last night at the pub for registration, and then over to the Yahoo! party. We had fun talking databases, beer, and the difficulty in trying to understand Australian accents. I learned from Tom (not Tom Lane) that Adelaide, Australia has a fantastic wine-growing region. Alvarro once again recommended that Jeff commit his time interval data type. I think Jeff was convinced to do this for 8.4. Now I have to update the documentation!

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PgCon in Ottawa – following people on twitter

I’m in Ottawa at PgCon and listening to Bruce Momjian give the keynote.

We have a few people who’ve joined Twitter in the last couple months and are posting their thoughts through the conference. Try following @crad, @fuzzychef, @franciscojunior and @selenamarie (me) for our up-to-the-minute updates!

I’ll be giving a lightning talk this afternoon around 5:30pm about user groups and PostgreSQL.

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twittering on 2008-05-20

  • voting… #
  • nearly ready to leave for work… #
  • happy birthday @linuxpoet! #
  • @thesethings what a bummer! (ubuntu live being cancelled) #
  • CSI csiinitiative.com via @mherrick66 just announced NEDSS http://is.gd/jcJ, a public health information network project – uses PostgreSQL! #
  • here’s the press release: http://www.csinitiative.com/publichealth.php #
  • happy birthday @adamd! you and @linuxpoet have the same birthday 😀 #
  • @xolotl is so persuasive! #
  • @acquia should listen to him! #
  • loving that @PortlandPolice is an equestrian. #
  • @ahockley check out updates to proposal! #
  • @eddieawad is there no data type for a sequence in oracle? #
  • @acquia pls don’t tweet restricted posts! make ’em public! kthxbye. #
  • @muckp no kidding! #
  • @spinnerin i’m wracking my brain! i wonder about conway? in NW portland? also PSU? through a grad student union… #
  • meh. i miss twitter. #
  • getting ready for PgCon in Ottawa. going home to pack. #
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twittering on 2008-05-19

  • testing out greg’s nagios plugin for postgresql – http://is.gd/iNA #
  • tried out new “only check email twice a day” strategy. got all email answered in 20 minutes. doing this from now on. #
  • @jasonglaspey it might 😉 i’m leaving it on while i’m doing stuff that doesn’t require much concentration – like nagios config. BO-RING. #
  • @garethgreenaway chocolate covered bacon is SO RIGHT! #
  • @womenwhotech thx! 🙂 #
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twittering on 2008-05-16

  • getting ready for a nice bike ride downtown. #
  • @Theory good one. ;D #
  • @spinnerin GO SHOPPING! #
  • @jabancroft competition in and between healthy communities is welcomed and fun – positive friction that encourages creativity, innovation #
  • at pdx and downloading Pg 8.3.1 and pl/lolcode for on-plane entertainment. #
  • @Theory he doesn’t have a full-text feed? 🙁 #
  • frustrated by truncated feeds. another reason why having them truncated for planet postgresql is dumb. #
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twittering on 2008-05-15

  • @markwkm will test your stored proc later today! #
  • thanks to @grigs for suggestions on making igniteportland.com load faster 🙂 #
  • twitter makes me laugh, every day. #
  • off to meet @debbryant, then lunch with @igniteportland’ers. #