27 Dec ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I've put the first (intended) use of the pg_amqp setup to the test. So far I'm very pleased. …
24 Dec ’09 from Robert Treat
When I was younger, I remember hearing the phrase "too big to fail" being used to describe ve…
19 Dec ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
So, it turns out that being stranded in an airport can lead to some productive output after a…
17 Dec ’09 from Jason Dixon
If you're unaware, there's an Advent calendar for Systems Administrators. Strangely enough, th…
17 Dec ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
What's a DBA? Database administrator? Database architect? Whatever it is, we need one (or two…
13 Nov ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
Net::RabbitMQ, get it while it's hot. ...…
9 Nov ’09 from Robert Treat
While a good portion of the Postgres community was making their way to France for PGDay Europ…
27 Oct ’09 from Robert Treat
Amazon Web Services has announced a new service it is touting as Amazon Relational Database S…
6 Oct ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
If you’re like me, you’ve read a handful of really useful articles about extendin…
16 Aug ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
It’s exciting to see things starting to take off. The momentum and excitement around Re…
10 Aug ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I gave a talk at the Percona Performance conference (same time as MySQL, in the same facility…
10 Aug ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I gave a talk at the Percona Performance conference (same time as MySQL, in the same facility…
22 Jul ’09 from Robert Treat
Happy to see the first issue of the new Open Source Database Magazine has been released. Fo…
12 Jul ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
Yup, I read another book. I think we can all agree we live in turbulent times. Current econ…
11 Jul ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
Long ago I studied Project Management very briefly. OmniTI does a mix of project work and op…
10 Jul ’09 from Eric Sproul
So, it's almost 2010 and there's no sign of my jetpack. That's fine, it probably wasn't such …
9 Jul ’09 from Robert Treat
Lately the search_path feature has been getting a bum wrap. People deriding it over security …
7 Jul ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
Call to action! Make the web a faster place! Here's a short article on how I spent 45 minutes…
25 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
In perhaps a new trend, I’m blogging from 39011 feet (or so says the seatback in front…
16 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
PostgreSQL has pretty awesome date/time functionality. I've used a lot of database and the fu…
16 Jun ’09 from Robert Treat
This blog post is just a test posting for some new functionality just added to Planet Postgre…
11 Jun ’09 from Robert Treat
Today I had a chance to sit through a sneak preview of Theo Schlossnagle's new talk Scalable …
11 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I post here, I post there... I certainly don't post everywhere. Anyway, I wrote an article th…
11 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I post here, I post there... I certainly don't post everywhere. Anyway, I wrote an article th…
9 Jun ’09 from Robert Treat
This month, the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL Users Group will be meeting on Wednesday, Jun…
5 Jun ’09 from Robert Treat
I had to chuckle when reading the comments of Alan Snelsons blog entry talking about PostgreS…
4 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
A little over a year ago, I started in on a project that was of significant scope. Not a few…
4 Jun ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
A little over a year ago, I started in on a project that was of significant scope. Not a few…
3 Jun ’09 from Robert Treat
For those looking for more information on the "Guide to Postgres 8.4" talk I have been giving…
25 May ’09 from Robert Treat
Well, another PGCon has come and gone. I always find it ironic how you struggle to cross the…
30 Apr ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm always humbled by the praise our company receives. Some go so far as to say we're brillia…
30 Apr ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm always humbled by the praise our company receives. Some go so far as to say we're brillia…
30 Apr ’09 from Robert Treat
Robert Hodges has brought up the idea of MySQL->Oracle culture shock today; it's something I …
2 Apr ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm pretty excited that Robert Treat is talking at PostgreSQL Conference East 2009. He'll be …
1 Apr ’09 from Paul Jones
Solar has a new class for user interaction: Solar_Mind_Read. Read on for more!...…
31 Mar ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
So, there's this really neat little conference being run by Percona. It's in the Santa Clara …
26 Mar ’09 from Robert Treat
We're coming up on conference season again. While hectic, I always enjoy (or at least try to …
19 Mar ’09 from Robert Treat
I'm starting to see more and more chatter about a report from MarketWatch about IBM's apparen…
13 Mar ’09 from Paul Jones
Those of us who are developing Solar (or using it on our day jobs) are usually too busy adding…
5 Mar ’09 from Paul Jones
My regular readers (and perhaps the irregular ones as well ;-) know that I have been obsessed …
3 Mar ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm excited to announce the first ever BWOSUG meeting. On March 11th we'll be meeting up for …
25 Feb ’09 from Robert Treat
Yesterday the posterous guys put up a very good article on scaling rails applications from th…
19 Feb ’09 from Paul Jones
With the help of the great guys at Slicehost.com, I am attempting to run my benchmark series o…
18 Feb ’09 from Robert Treat
Before I go too far, let me disclose that I submitted a talk for CommunityOne designed to cov…
10 Feb ’09 from Robert Treat
Wanted to give a hat tip to MindGrub, tonight's speakers for the Columbia PHP Meetup. Due to …
9 Feb ’09 from Robert Treat
Last Friday's news of Monty officially resigning was important news, though not really earth …
5 Feb ’09 from Robert Treat
One thing I haven't really seen discussed is how best to handle controlled failover scenarios…
4 Feb ’09 from Paul Jones
I just discovered nosmarty.net in my Solar referrer logs. I have little love for Smarty, so it…
3 Feb ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
At some point, I will come up with a list of "must have" books. Until then, this reading list…
30 Jan ’09 from Robert Treat
This is not the release I meant to announce. I was going to mention that we released 0.5 of g…
27 Jan ’09 from Robert Treat
The last few months have been a busy time for everyone, but it's time to get focused again an…
19 Jan ’09 from Robert Treat
OK, this is it, the final call for PGCon papers. Technically the deadline is tonight at mid-n…
18 Jan ’09 from Paul Jones
In a long, long overdue move, I have updated the old “Getting Started” docs for So…
11 Jan ’09 from Sean Coates
I have a love-hate relationship with Adobe AIR.On the positive side, AIR allows developers who…
3 Jan ’09 from Theo Schlossnagle
It has been a long time since I've done an interview with anyone. Recently, I had the pleasur…
