· 1 min · Django

Unbreaking Your Django Application

Download the slides from a 2011 OSCON tutorial on diagnosing and fixing broken Django applications.

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· 1 min · Django

Life with Object-Relational Mappers

My PGCon 2011 talk slides are now available for download, covering unconventional approaches to PostgreSQL data handling.

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· 1 min · Django

Not Convenient.

Two major tech conferences clash this year, and WWDC sold out in mere hours, leaving developers with an impossible choice.

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· 2 min · Tech Biz

What It Means to Be In Business

Successful micro-businesses obsess over pleasing customers, not owner happiness. That's how they survive without venture capital or market dominance.

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· 1 min · PostgreSQL

Transaction-Level Advisory Locks in PostgreSQL 9.1

Advisory locks gain transaction-level support in PostgreSQL 9.1, unlocking new patterns for coordinating work without touching your schema.

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· 2 min · Security

Concern Troll is Concerned: Verifone vs Square

Verifone attacks Square's card reader over unencrypted data—the same complaint they ignore for every other reader on the market. This is FUD, not security.

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· 1 min · Django

Django and PostgreSQL at PostgreSQL Conference East

Learn Django with PostgreSQL in a full-day tutorial covering both general development and PG-specific techniques.

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· 1 min · Django

“Anatomy of a Crushing”

When Delicious died, Pinboard's tiny database nearly did too. A crash course in handling unexpected traffic spikes.

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· 1 min · PostgreSQL

“10 Ways to Kill Performance”

Learn ten surprisingly common mistakes that tank PostgreSQL performance, from a talk at PgDay SCALE 9X.

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· 1 min · PostgreSQL

“10 Easy Ways to Destroy Performance” at pgDay at SCALE-9X

Ten innocent-looking mistakes that silently tank your PostgreSQL performance—and how to spot them before they wreck your database.

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