- @theory heh. #
- looking forward to extreme database makeover with @theory, @gorthx http://pugs.postgresql.org/node/154 #
- at cubespace for barcamp planning #
- @theory are you going to post those schema suggestions? i’d like to link to them… or post them on the PUGS site #
- @spinnerin @ljbanks yup, high temp is the key! i use a pizza stone, parchment paper and a lot of steam to get a good crust #
- btw @spinnerin’s bread and marmalade is the bomb. #
- i started using my pizza stone before i had discovered parchment paper, so mine isn’t so pretty now. but it works great! #
- my new absolutely most favorite blog: http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ #
- thanks to @theory, mark wong and jeff davis for their work on extreme database makeover! http://snurl.com/20jhc #
- @petdance so "true". my plan is to "catch up" on the last "three years" in the next "two hours". #
- @petdance oh "right" #
- @rael, @theory: "literally" is another favorite of mine – of course, there is a blog dedicated to its abuse: http://literally.barelyfitz.com #
- @theory you tell me because my airport sux too. #
extreme database makeover: RT meeting recap
[Update: David Wheeler provided the SQL that came out of this meeting.]
Last night, PDXPUG and Code-n-Splode got together to refactor the database for RT. David Wheeler, Jeff Davis and Mark Wong led the discussion.
Through the course of the meeting, the group chose to pick out a few key features that would be better served if the database schema was more normalized, and offered a few new constraints we thought would help manage the data. Toward the end of the meeting, Igal suggested having a Perl workshop to refactor the code related to one or more of the database changes. The idea here was to be helpful, rather than just poking holes in the schema.
David started the discussion off with an introduction to RT. RT was created about 10 years ago by Jesse Vincent of Best Practical, and the database schema has been augmented over the years to accommodate new functionality. They support both MySQL and PostgreSQL as backends, and tend to dislike using database-specific technology.
twittering on 2008-02-26
- woo! spring is here. chickens laid an egg. #
- welcome to twitter @cbbrowne 🙂 #
- summer of code for postgresql is ramping up! http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode #
- @notbenh there, there. #
- @andeezy i love that song. is that wrong? #
- hah! phase Awful Hack to ptop To Make It Compile On Mac OS X complete! #
- @muckp the chickens were not bold. we did that. that’s right. we snow-tortured our chickens. #
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- coffee + laptop = disassembled laptop #
- whatever, @linuxpoet. u want one. #
- 15 teeny screws later, that keyboard is off and the air compressor blew another 8 oz of coffee out. #
- considering purchasing a new keyboard. #
- @notbenh u still coming to pdxpug? #
- @notbenh if you’d be willing to be laptop provider, that’d be awesome. we were going to use my robot. not anymore. #
- @kanejo gonna have to check out peter’s 19th hole. sounds awesome. #
- @notbenh not really, probably just ability to go to web and look things up. #
- stuff white people like: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ #
- laptop fully functional! #
- josh drake came to PDXPUG last night. that was fun 🙂 #
- @andeezy when i have kids, i want to have twins. unfortunately, it is not in the cards. #
- just finished rearranging office. qi flowing auspiciously. #
- @adamd yay for bikes! #
- mmmm. sushi. #
- i love getting emails from the waffle cart about them having apple crisp this weekend. #
twittering on 2008-02-22
- coffee + laptop = disassembled laptop #
- whatever, @linuxpoet. u want one. #
- 15 teeny screws later, that keyboard is off and the air compressor blew another 8 oz of coffee out. #
- considering purchasing a new keyboard. #
- @notbenh u still coming to pdxpug? #
- @notbenh if you’d be willing to be laptop provider, that’d be awesome. we were going to use my robot. not anymore. #
- @kanejo gonna have to check out peter’s 19th hole. sounds awesome. #
- @notbenh not really, probably just ability to go to web and look things up. #
- stuff white people like: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ #
- laptop fully functional! #
- josh drake came to PDXPUG last night. that was fun 🙂 #
- @andeezy when i have kids, i want to have twins. unfortunately, it is not in the cards. #
- just finished rearranging office. qi flowing auspiciously. #
- @adamd yay for bikes! #
- mmmm. sushi. #
- i love getting emails from the waffle cart about them having apple crisp this weekend. #
twittering on 2008-02-21
- exporting a "medium sized" movie #
- took 200+ photos of the eclipse. made a slideshow. uploading to pownce. #
- xo my D40 #
- my dad gave me a few nikon lenses a couple years ago. i finally am able to use them with the D40. my main film camera was my mom’s, a fujica #
- ugh, now i’m hungry for cupcakes AND bacon. #
- @petdance: no. #
- funny tweets together: @ahockley- "exchange is down", @slashdot – "gates explains microsoft’s need for yahoo" #
- social web != women in science/technology. more like blogging is replacing print. #
- really cool that girls are into blogging, but it’s not translating directly into women in leadership positions in tech, especially in edu #
- @petdance SHELLAC. yay. #
- @spinnerin you’re rad! #
- @spinnerin anytime 🙂 #
- hungry already. still want bacon and cupcakes. #
- @notbenh that sounds really good right now. #
- @metafluence yeah, you should fix that because i thought you were maybe my creepy uncle when i got the msg. #
- working out a tricky issue among italians. #
- @geekygirldawn hope you feel better soon. the sun is beautiful today! #
- @kanejo which trivia night do you go to? #
- @geekygirldawn i haven’t figured it out yet. #
- @linuxpoet yay for sponsors! #
- so, if you are organizing something with someone, do you say that you are an organizer, or a co-organizer? #
- @notbenh different responsibilities, but still lots of time for both people #
- @notbenh no hierarchy, essentially. yeah, i think just ‘organizer’ is better. #
- @linuxpoet: right, but i was referring to myself as co-organizer 🙂 because i thought it was "respectful". now i see that is silly 🙂 #
eclipse!
We had a lunar eclipse this evening. In the last few minutes before the eclipse, I got my camera out, and even managed a lens change (a 135mm my father gave to me a few years ago). I’m just learning how to shoot at night, but it was fun to play around with the lenses and my digital camera.
The tempo of the slide changes goes pretty well with Saeglopur by Sigur Rós. Here’s the original. Still trying to figure out exactly how this embedding thingy works. You’ll note that the movie below crops things oddly.