Posted on Sun 11 August 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, postgresql, python
Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF)
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On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference:
I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University.
For the past six years, my day job and research …
Posted on Sun 11 August 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, postgresql, python
Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF)
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On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference:
I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University.
For the past six years, my day job and research …
Posted on Fri 05 July 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, fsoss, postgresql, python
On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …
Posted on Fri 05 July 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, fsoss, postgresql, python
On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …
Posted on Sat 16 February 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql
Three years ago I was asked to create and deliver a two-day course introducing SQL to Evergreen users. Things went well and I was able to share the resulting materials with the Evergreen and PostgreSQL community. Perhaps one of my happiest moments at the Evergreen conference last year was when …
Posted on Sat 16 February 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql
Three years ago I was asked to create and deliver a two-day course introducing SQL to Evergreen users. Things went well and I was able to share the resulting materials with the Evergreen and PostgreSQL community. Perhaps one of my happiest moments at the Evergreen conference last year was when …
Posted on Thu 18 October 2012 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Perl, PostgreSQL, coding, perl, postgresql
A while ago I inherited responsibility for a Drupal 6 instance and a rather out-of-date server. (You know it's not good when your production operating system is so old that it is no longer getting security updates).
I'm not a Drupal person. I dabbled with Drupal years and years ago …
Posted on Thu 18 October 2012 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Perl, PostgreSQL, coding, perl, postgresql
A while ago I inherited responsibility for a Drupal 6 instance and a rather out-of-date server. (You know it's not good when your production operating system is so old that it is no longer getting security updates).
I'm not a Drupal person. I dabbled with Drupal years and years ago …
Posted on Tue 18 September 2012 in Databases • Tagged with PostgreSQL, postgresql
I'm at PostgresOpen in Chicago, and just gave my talk on Implementing full-text search in PostgreSQL. The goal was to give novice users the understanding and examples they needed to build a workable search solution using PostgreSQL's full-text search. And it went (in my opinion) well - an almost full room …
Posted on Tue 18 September 2012 in Databases • Tagged with PostgreSQL, postgresql
I'm at PostgresOpen in Chicago, and just gave my talk on Implementing full-text search in PostgreSQL. The goal was to give novice users the understanding and examples they needed to build a workable search solution using PostgreSQL's full-text search. And it went (in my opinion) well - an almost full room …