The slides from my talk at PGCon 2011 are now available.

DjangoCon Europe and the Apple WWDC are at the exact same time. This is going to be a tough call.

Update: Well, that was quick. WWDC sold out in 10 hours, while I was dithering.

To bring everyone up to date:

• Justin Vincent wrote a post offering an opinion about the downsides of the chase of tech entrepreneurs over VC funding.
• Amy Hoy wrote a post expanding on Mr Vincent’s post.
• Alex Payne wrote a post criticizing this position, while finding it necessary to describe “long time acquaintance” Amy Hoy’s product

Advisory locks are one of the cool unsung features of PostgreSQL. In 9.1, they are getting even cooler with transaction level locks. Many details here.

Suppose a major manufacturer of computer keyboards announced a very serious security problem with a specific competitor’s keyboard: Someone could plug this keyboard into a computer running a malicious app, and cause a user to enter sensitive information. Thus, the manufacturer demands that their competitor recall all of these “insecure” keyboards.

Anyone with the technical sense of a rock

I’ll be giving a full day tutorial about developing Django applications using PostgreSQL. If you are just getting started with Django, this is a great introduction; it is intended for developers who are just getting into serious Django/PG development.

It’ll cover general development in Django, with a lot of PostgreSQL-specific details.

And, of course, the whole conference will

A fun and interesting article about a sudden burst in traffic at Pinboard when Yahoo! announced they were shutting down Delicious. Relevant to app and DB designers everywhere.

The slides from my talk, “10 Easy Ways to Destroy Performance” from PgDay at SCALE 9X are available.

I’ll be presenting a talk on “10 Easy Ways to Destroy Performance” at pgDay at SCALE-9X, on February 25th in Los Angeles.

I’ll be presenting a full-day tutorial on Django Development with PostgreSQL at PostgreSQL Conference East, March 22-25 in New York!