Slides from my talk, Finding and Repairing Database Corruption, are now available.

Assignment: Load a remote URL via https, verifying the site certificate against a local root CA certificate.

Java, Android SDK:

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// Load CAs from an InputStream
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// (could be from a resource or ByteArrayInputStream or ...)
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CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
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// From https://www.washington.edu/itconnect/security/ca/load-der.crt
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InputStream caInput = new 

This is long, and involves drama. If you are not interested in the drama, I encourage you to skip it, and have a wonderful time at Djangocon US 2014.

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I recently resigned as the program chair for Djangocon US 2014.

Up until now, I had been intending to simply wish Djangocon the best of success,

Just a reminder that the Djangocon US 2014 Call for Proposals ends July 15, 2014… we would love your talks and tutorials!

As program chair this year, I am very pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for Djangocon US 2014 is now open! It only runs through the end of June, so be sure to get them in promptly!

I’ll be presenting “The Worst Day of Your Life” (dealing with major PostgreSQL disasters) at Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014. My first trip to Scandinavia!

I’ll be presenting “Really, Really Fast Django” at Djangocon EU. Do come! It’s on a private island!

The slides are available here.

FOSDEM PgDay 2014 was not, in fact, the worst day of my life; it was a great deal of fun. However, the slides from my presentation, The Worst Day of Your Life, dealing with PostgreSQL disasters, are now available.

I’ll be presenting “JSON in PostgreSQL” at SCALE 12x in Los Angeles on Friday, February 21, 2014. Do come!

I’ll be giving a tutorial at PyCon 2014 in Montréal. Register early and often!