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		<title>Contributing to the PostgreSQL Documentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sign up to be a proofreader:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Documentation_Proofreading
Or just submit fixes as you find them.
References for building the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/docguide-toolsets.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/docguide-build.html
To build the PostgreSQL docs on Ubuntu, I had to install the following packages* additional to my base install:
- docbook
- docbook-utils (contains the collateindex.pl script)
- jade
Build the html docs from your top-level pg source dir:
./configure [options]
make html
&#8230;make is actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2010/07/28/postgresql-html-docs-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>OSBridge 2010 Braindump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conference website:  http://opensourcebridge.org/  Many of the sessions have user-submitted notes;  check the &#8220;session notes&#8221; link from the session info box on the upper right side of each session&#8217;s page.
Year 2 of OSBridge was almost as good as Year 1.  I say almost, because I spent Monday (my first day off, completely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2010/06/10/osbridge-2010-braindump/</link>
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		<title>das keyboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My beloved and yet much-abused Model M keyboard has been on its last legs (or springs) for a while now.  I really need that esc key, and the left bracket, and the space bar, and the letter &#8220;m&#8221;, and so on&#8230;knowing my love for the clickety-clack, a friend recommended I replace it with one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2010/06/09/das-keyboard/</link>
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		<title>Using rrdgraph&#8217;s &#8211;right-axis options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, say I have an interface that's dropping packets.  Not too many, but the ideal number is zero, so I'd like to see them in the graphs in our NMS (which is based on <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/" target="new">rrdtool</a>  as all decent NMSes are).  I can read the average rate of dropped packets in the graph key at the bottom,  and there are tiny little blips in the graph, but I don't have a strong visual cue that something is off.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2010/06/08/using-rrdgraphs-right-axis-options/</link>
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		<title>Array Sorting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this little sorting problem that had been bothering me for a month, but as it&#8217;s only a minor annoyance, I hadn&#8217;t spared the cycles to work on it.  Last Friday I decided I needed an instant gratification project, and set about solving it.
I have a table that contains hostnames, cards, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2010/01/12/array-sorting/</link>
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		<title>Refactoring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the hackathon,  we refactored one of our queries from my review of Refactoring SQL Applications.*
First, we had a duplicate field name in the original select.  Not a problem if you&#8217;re just doing a select, but if you want to create a table (temp or otherwise) from the data, it won&#8217;t work.  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2009/11/06/refactoring/</link>
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		<title>PgWest:  Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived at the conference site to find that the XML Data Warehousing had been canceled, so I spent that session in the Hackers&#8217; Lounge attempting to continue work on pg_proctab, while getting kicked off the commie college wireless.
In Lists and Recursions and Trees, Oh My!, David Fetter gave us some example of old kludges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2009/10/19/pgwest-sunday/</link>
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		<title>PGWest:  Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend was the 3rd annual PgWest.  The conference moved up to Seattle this year, and I think it was the biggest it&#8217;s ever been.  As usual, there were more interesting talks scheduled than I had time to attend.  (This is the 21st century;  where&#8217;s my time machine?)
For my first tech conferences a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2009/10/19/pgwest-saturday/</link>
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		<title>PDX.pm meeting notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff (aka @duckyd) gave a presentation about CPAN Awesomeness at last night&#8217;s pdx.pm.
Slides are on github!  Your homework is to find them.    Here are some highlights.
There are over 16K modules on the CPAN as of 11 Oct 2009.  Wow.
Jeff&#8217;s recommended changes from the default cpan shell configuration:
- auto_commit 1
- prerequisites_policy follow
- build_requires_install_policy yes
- [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2009/10/15/pdx-pm-meeting-notes/</link>
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		<title>My picks for PgWest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ll be missing Friday&#8217;s tutorials.)
Saturday:
9am:  Jeff Davis:  PostgreSQL, Extensible to the Nth Degree.  Jeff&#8217;s talks usually melt my brain, and I like that.
10:15:  Conference Keynote.
11:30am:  Mark Wong: pg_proctab.  Turns out I&#8217;m giving this talk with Mark, even though my name&#8217;s not on the schedule.  I should probably show up.
1:45pm:  Scott Bailey:  Temporal Data or Magnus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baconandtech.com/2009/10/13/my-picks-for-pgwest/</link>
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