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TorqueBox 3.0.0 Released (A Ruby Application Server)(torquebox.org)
2 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 13y ago
I always look forward to reading Toms stuff on the pgsql-hackers mailing list - I hope this move means Salesforce is making a big push into Postgres core development. BTW, the linked page also has some interesting notes on what the PG devel
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by sheff 13y ago
The original title of the page is "Refer a Software Developer. Make $30,000!" and seems to be for hiring developers in Boston and Dublin (Ireland). I wonder if they selected Dublin as their EU base as some sort of strategy to minimize their
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by sheff 13y ago
Considering the rising popularity of Postgres, I'd love to see someone set up a kind of Kickstarter mechanism so the user community can fund large pieces of development work, eg partitioning , extending the work on DB checksums and so on as
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by sheff 13y ago
I use Postgres for pretty much every project possible, as well as using Oracle for consulting clients. The main feature which I'd like the PG development team to look at next is implementing a more comprehensive partitioning solution. As fa
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by sheff 14y ago
Have you looked at Piwik ? Its open source, fairly well established and can be self hosted. A list of its main features can be seen here : http://piwik.org/features/list/ .
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Ask HN: Where do you buy your DRM free ebooks from?
1 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
This would be brilliant, as Postgres is one of the most commonly used databases with Rails (generally, and also because of Heroku) so having feature parity between the pg gem and JDBC drivers that you can use with, for example, Torquebox wo
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by sheff 14y ago
> Incomplete integration with postgresql. I'm planning on using it with postgresql - do you have any links to whats not supported with the JDBC drivers ?
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by sheff 14y ago
Looking forward to installing it and trying it out with Torquebox ( http://torquebox.org/ ) for a new project.
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JRuby 1.7.0. Released(jruby.org)
124 points by sheff 14y ago|50 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
From what I've read about the Salesforce Oracle backend in the past, they are big users of Oracle RAC . Hopefully if Salesforce switch they will develop some form of Postgres clustering solution which would be great for the Postgres communi
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Marvel's 1990s financial reports(newstatesman.com)
1 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
I remember reading about a largeish legacy French government system migrating to Postgres a couple of years ago, so maybe they've decided Postgres fits the bill for most scenarios they need a DB for. According to these slides [1] that syste
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by sheff 14y ago
Thanks for the update on the licensing. Barman does have a lot of great features, and hopefully I will be able to try it out on a test system sometime soon.
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by sheff 14y ago
Terminology conflict I think :-) The pg_rman docs call backup retention management "backup maintenance" , and retention management is one of the things on the barman todo list. As for compression, I think barman does log compression not the
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by sheff 14y ago
Another option which I've been looking at is pg_rman ( http://code.google.com/p/pg-rman/ ) . It's several years old, from NTT, and with a BSD license. It seems a bit simpler , and lists a couple of useful features such as compression and
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by sheff 14y ago
In case anyone thinks of buying the book above, John Locke is mentioned in this NY Times article which says part of his "system" which is not mentioned in his book is buying Amazon reviews. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-r
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Postgres Open 2012 - Slides for talks(wiki.postgresql.org)
4 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
My opinion is that without the £3.5 billion a year that comes from the UK license fee, and the infrastructure and resources that the Beeb has built up over the years due to that income (plus what they also get from general taxation), they w
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by sheff 14y ago
Have you looked at Drupal ? There is a lot of overlap between its custom CMS features and what you describe above. See http://drupal.org/documentation/structure .
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by sheff 14y ago
The other place to look for books is Pragmatic Programmers ( http://pragprog.com/titles ) who do the Agile Web Development with Rails book which is usually fairly up to date, along with some other in depth titles. A subscription to Railsc
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Vico, an open source vi like editor for Mac(github.com)
2 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
An update to PL/Ruby would be great. It doesn't appear to have been updated for a couple of years or use Ruby 1.9 : https://github.com/knu/postgresql-plruby . There is also a newer fork : https://github.com/globegit/postgresql-plruby ,
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by sheff 14y ago
I hope they allow a mechanism for people to opt out. I can't really see this helping the reader, or even proper publishers. It will just aid the Demand Media equivalents of the publishing world in churning out crap.
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by sheff 14y ago
Its been a couple of years but the process in the UK is very simple - check out http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-formsfees.htm for the various services plus they have some useful documents covering the basics. The IPO also offer a service
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Facebook advertising: Who likes my virtual bagels?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
Completely agree with this. If you look at some of the CERN infrastructure pages, you see they use both open source and commercial apps wherever they make sense. For example when I checked out the DB infrastructure a while ago, they seemed
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by sheff 14y ago
I was just going by the "Do I need to use Google Maps API for Business?" in the FAQ here : http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html . "If you are charging a fee for access to your Maps solution, whether for a business or co
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by sheff 14y ago
This price reduction looks like it is only for sites supported by advertising / unmonetised sites. Any startup planning on charging for an app or service which incorporates any kind of map will still have to pay a minimum $10,000 a year lic

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