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            <title>Rasmus Lerdorf&rsquo;s Laconic(a) Performance</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/383390160/</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here. It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf&#8217;s slides on the subject of performance benchmarki...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here. It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf&#8217;s slides on the subject of performance benchmarking. I&#8217;m beginning to think there&#8217;s something unexpected or unexamined in his testing [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:44:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>ZFS, databases, and common threads</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/357-ZFS,-databases,-and-common-threads.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Yesterday Neil mentioned his "systems" class at Berkely, which studies common themes among operating systems, networking, and databases. I wonder if they will study ZFS at all. One of the things I find interesting about ZFS is that it shares many comm...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Yesterday Neil mentioned his "systems" class at Berkely, which studies common themes among operating systems, networking, and databases. I wonder if they will study ZFS at all. One of the things I find interesting about ZFS is that it shares many common ideas from the database world, including things like durability, transactions, commit logs, and buffer caches. They sometimes refer to these thing with different terms, but the ideas are basically the same. If you'd like to learn more, there is ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:42:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OpenSSH and SecurID, still a good choice.</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/129-OpenSSH-and-SecurID,-still-a-good-choice..html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/129-OpenSSH-and-SecurID,-still-a-good-choice..html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ A long time ago, I wrote integration into the portable version of OpenSSH to allow direct authentication against an RSA ACE (SecurID) server. I've received many thanks over time for the work and I'm aware that it is used at some (very large) organizat...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ A long time ago, I wrote integration into the portable version of OpenSSH to allow direct authentication against an RSA ACE (SecurID) server. I've received many thanks over time for the work and I'm aware that it is used at some (very large) organizations. However, as with most security related things, people tend not to talk about what they do. As it is open source and no registration is required to download the patch, I think I might have underestimated the deployments. Quite some time ago, J...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:01:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Labor Day Benchmarks</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/380563444/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/380563444/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previous result sets here: How Fast Is Your Framework? New Year&#8217;s Benchmarks Framework and Application Benchmarking slides at DCPHP 2007 Before you comment o...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previous result sets here: How Fast Is Your Framework? New Year&#8217;s Benchmarks Framework and Application Benchmarking slides at DCPHP 2007 Before you comment on this post, please have the courtesy to read at least the first two articles above; I am tired [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:42:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>XML/XSLT and DocBook for docs</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/128-XMLXSLT-and-DocBook-for-docs.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/128-XMLXSLT-and-DocBook-for-docs.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ I've been writing docs for Reconnoiter. I selected DocBook for two reasons. First, I hoped that number of polished documents I've seen written in DocBook would mean that if this manual grows in size and usefulness we might be able to achieve some poli...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I've been writing docs for Reconnoiter. I selected DocBook for two reasons. First, I hoped that number of polished documents I've seen written in DocBook would mean that if this manual grows in size and usefulness we might be able to achieve some polish "on the cheap." Second, our open-source site has a really nice automated systems for auto-publishing project documentation... if it is in DocBook. That said, DocBook is a complete pain in the ass. It isn't broken or bad, but it really gets in th...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>ZFS: Under the Hood</title>
            <link>http://www.nanobyte.org/blog/index.php?/archives/19-ZFS-Under-the-Hood.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.nanobyte.org/blog/index.php?/archives/19-ZFS-Under-the-Hood.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ Today I gave a technical presentation at the $DAYJOB about ZFS. ZFS rocks my world. As a sysadmin, I use it literally every day, and have been since it debuted in Solaris 10 more than 2 years ago. It makes data storage simple yet powerful. I wanted to...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Today I gave a technical presentation at the $DAYJOB about ZFS. ZFS rocks my world. As a sysadmin, I use it literally every day, and have been since it debuted in Solaris 10 more than 2 years ago. It makes data storage simple yet powerful. I wanted to share what I've learned, and why I think ZFS is so cool.  I've put my slides online.  EDIT 9/2/2008: Fixed the slides link ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:14:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Solar System</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/374571964/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/374571964/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[In the spirit of some other framework projects, the Solar Framework for PHP 5 now offers a ready-to-use Solar system to get new users off to a quick start. It&#8217;s not prepared as a tarball just yet, but it is available for checkout or export using ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the spirit of some other framework projects, the Solar Framework for PHP 5 now offers a ready-to-use Solar system to get new users off to a quick start. It&#8217;s not prepared as a tarball just yet, but it is available for checkout or export using Subversion from http://svn.solarphp.com/system/trunk. For example, if you make a [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Inspecting and Hacking HTTP</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/inspecting-and-hacking-http</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/inspecting-and-hacking-http</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've ever tried to debug problems with sessions, cookies, or redirects, I'm sure you can appreciate how hard it is without taking a close look at what's going on b...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've ever tried to debug problems with sessions, cookies, or redirects, I'm sure you can appreciate how hard it is without taking a close look at what's going on behind the scenes. There are numerous tools to help you inspect HTTP. If you're a Firefox user, you can use LiveHTTPHeaders or HttpFox. (Please feel free to suggest others.) If you use Safari, you can enable the debug menu:  $ defaults write com.app...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:06:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>BREAD, not CRUD</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/370517157/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/370517157/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Several developers have asked me what &#8220;BREAD&#8221; means in web applications. Most everyone knows that CRUD is &#8220;create, read, update, delete,&#8221; but I think that misses an important aspect of web apps: the listing of records to select ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Several developers have asked me what &#8220;BREAD&#8221; means in web applications. Most everyone knows that CRUD is &#8220;create, read, update, delete,&#8221; but I think that misses an important aspect of web apps: the listing of records to select from. I don&#8217;t recall where I first heard the term BREAD; it stands for &#8220;browse, read, edit, [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Security 2.0 in Cincinnati</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/security-2.0-in-cincinnati</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/security-2.0-in-cincinnati</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizabeth Naramore is kindly hosting me, so I'll be able to fraternize after the meeting, which is always the b...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizabeth Naramore is kindly hosting me, so I'll be able to fraternize after the meeting, which is always the best part of any user group. This talk is one of the least PHP-specific talks I give, so if you're in the area and interested in learning a bit more about evolving trends in web application security, I hope you'll join us. In case it helps convince ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Savant Has A New Owner</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/369998945/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/369998945/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I&#8217;ve been the lead of many different PHP libraries over the years: Contact_Vcard_Parse, Contact_Vcard_Build, DB_Table, Text_Wiki, and others. As each matured, I handed them over to other maintainers who continued to improve o...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[As many of you know, I&#8217;ve been the lead of many different PHP libraries over the years: Contact_Vcard_Parse, Contact_Vcard_Build, DB_Table, Text_Wiki, and others. As each matured, I handed them over to other maintainers who continued to improve on them and take them to greater heights. Now that time has come for Savant, [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:05:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Varnish, get your patch on.</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/125-Varnish,-get-your-patch-on..html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/125-Varnish,-get-your-patch-on..html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ Varnish is a "bad ass" new HTTP caching accelerator. It's developed by some crufty old BSD hacker and has a lot of Linux users. By and large, it has ignored Solaris. This sort of neglect isn't malicious, it is just neglect... you know: "out of sight, ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Varnish is a "bad ass" new HTTP caching accelerator. It's developed by some crufty old BSD hacker and has a lot of Linux users. By and large, it has ignored Solaris. This sort of neglect isn't malicious, it is just neglect... you know: "out of sight, out of mind." Well, check out Varnish trunk and give this patch a spin. Let me know what you think. Perhaps one day, the Solaris networking team (or someone else) will satisfy this pretty abysmal shortcoming: BugID 4641715. ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>BWPUG: The essential PostgreSQL.conf</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/124-BWPUG-The-essential-PostgreSQL.conf.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/124-BWPUG-The-essential-PostgreSQL.conf.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ Howdy folks, This is a reminder that our monthly meetup is scheduled to take place this coming MONDAY, August 11th. As requested, we've moved the meetings from Wednesday to Monday to facilitate some of the would-be-attendees that have contacted me out...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Howdy folks, This is a reminder that our monthly meetup is scheduled to take place this coming MONDAY, August 11th. As requested, we've moved the meetings from Wednesday to Monday to facilitate some of the would-be-attendees that have contacted me out of band. This month's presentation is titled "The essential PostgreSQL.conf". With almost 200 configuration parameters, some people might think the postgresql.conf is a bit heady, but the truth is there are only about 2 dozen that you really need ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>End of Life for PHP 4</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/end-of-life-for-php-4</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/end-of-life-for-php-4</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday's release of 4.4.9 is the final release of PHP 4. More information can be gleaned from the mailing list arch...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday's release of 4.4.9 is the final release of PHP 4. More information can be gleaned from the mailing list archives, beginning with Derick's request to drop support: I am trying to gauge what people feel about dropping support for PHP 4 at the end of this year. Derick caveated his suggestion with the idea of continuing to publish new releases that address s...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:51:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>A webcomic for DBA&#039;s</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/356-A-webcomic-for-DBAs.html</link>
            <guid>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/356-A-webcomic-for-DBAs.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ This has been going around the net a little bit, but for those who haven't seen it, check out the new DBA oriented webcomic "The Adventures of Ace, DBA". The strip is Oracle themed, but I suspect if you have ever had to maintain any RDBMS, you will be...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ This has been going around the net a little bit, but for those who haven't seen it, check out the new DBA oriented webcomic "The Adventures of Ace, DBA". The strip is Oracle themed, but I suspect if you have ever had to maintain any RDBMS, you will be able to relate. ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>My Birthday Present From php.net</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/359444523/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/359444523/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[The folks at php.net have given me a very nice birthday present. As of today, they are end-of-lifing PHP version 4. Thanks guys, this is something I&#8217;ve wanted for a while now! ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The folks at php.net have given me a very nice birthday present. As of today, they are end-of-lifing PHP version 4. Thanks guys, this is something I&#8217;ve wanted for a while now! ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Exceptional command-line PHP</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/358954366/</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmjones/~3/358954366/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[(Yes, I know, I&#8217;ve done no blogging in far too long. I&#8217;ve got a stack of stuff to blog about, but it&#8217;s all rather heavy. In the mean time, here&#8217;s something light.) When executing code at the command line using php -r and PHP 5.2...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[(Yes, I know, I&#8217;ve done no blogging in far too long. I&#8217;ve got a stack of stuff to blog about, but it&#8217;s all rather heavy. In the mean time, here&#8217;s something light.) When executing code at the command line using php -r and PHP 5.2.5, be sure not to extend the Exception class. [...]...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:26:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OSCON Wrapup</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/jul/oscon-wrapup</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/jul/oscon-wrapup</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Another OSCON has come and gone. It was a very busy week filled with talks, work, social events, and everything in between. (Sleep is optional and not recommended.) The OmniTI family (Message Systems included) was well represented with a number of spea...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Another OSCON has come and gone. It was a very busy week filled with talks, work, social events, and everything in between. (Sleep is optional and not recommended.) The OmniTI family (Message Systems included) was well represented with a number of speakers and talks:  Chris Shiflett Experience-Driven Development: Designers and Developers Working in Harmony Security 2.0: Emerging Trends in Web Application Security David Gray How I Learned to Love Revision Control Luke Welling PHP Taint Tool: It A...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:56:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OSCon Quick Notes Review</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/355-OSCon-Quick-Notes-Review.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Just some quick notes on things that happened @ oscon 2008.  1) Synopsis of news stories for me looks something like Dave->Selena->Peter->Josh->Jonah->Bernier->Certification->Drizzle->Monty->Portland->Selena. (Hmm, I wonder if all of these are public)...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Just some quick notes on things that happened @ oscon 2008.  1) Synopsis of news stories for me looks something like Dave->Selena->Peter->Josh->Jonah->Bernier->Certification->Drizzle->Monty->Portland->Selena. (Hmm, I wonder if all of these are public)  2) Keynotes are back. A lot of people have been skipping keynote talks lately, this years crop was one of the best.   3) It's important to get something out of a talk. This year there were three talk where what I got was big red warning lights an...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:30:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Cyber-this, cyber-that</title>
            <link>http://www.nanobyte.org/blog/index.php?/archives/18-Cyber-this,-cyber-that.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.nanobyte.org/blog/index.php?/archives/18-Cyber-this,-cyber-that.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ Ed Felten's latest post on his "Freedom to Tinker" blog, entitled What's the Cyber in Cyber-Security?, looks at the roots of the prefix "cyber" that has become ubiquitous in the public mind. I love finding out the origins of terms that we all take for...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Ed Felten's latest post on his "Freedom to Tinker" blog, entitled What's the Cyber in Cyber-Security?, looks at the roots of the prefix "cyber" that has become ubiquitous in the public mind. I love finding out the origins of terms that we all take for granted and about which we don't usually think in depth. Thanks, Ed. ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OSCON2008 Presentation</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/123-OSCON2008-Presentation.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/123-OSCON2008-Presentation.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ Hello from OSCON. I gave my full-stack introspection crash course talk today. It has been quite a while since I've presented anything in a 40 minute format, but I think the talk went quite well. I got a lot of positive feedback. I decided to take a ri...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hello from OSCON. I gave my full-stack introspection crash course talk today. It has been quite a while since I've presented anything in a 40 minute format, but I think the talk went quite well. I got a lot of positive feedback. I decided to take a risky approach inspired by dtrace.conf(08) by demonstrating dtrace on a live, mission-critical system we run at OmniTI. The risks of this are: network connections flake out, dtrace doesn't work correctly or I do something stupid and cause some servic...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:58:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OSCON 2008: SNAP - PHP Taint Tool</title>
            <link>http://lukewelling.com/2008/07/23/oscon-2008-snap-php-taint-tool/</link>
            <guid>http://lukewelling.com/2008/07/23/oscon-2008-snap-php-taint-tool/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Here are the slides for my talk today at OSCON. Keep the disclaimer at the start at the front of your mind. This tool is fragile and not ready to be called alpha quality It is definitely not ready to be useful on large programs We will release it under...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are the slides for my talk today at OSCON. Keep the disclaimer at the start at the front of your mind. This tool is fragile and not ready to be called alpha quality It is definitely not ready to be useful on large programs We will release it under an OSI license … soon  SNAP Presentation (PDF) ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:26:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Certified Schizophrenic</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/354-Certified-Schizophrenic.html</link>
            <guid>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/354-Certified-Schizophrenic.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that o...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that on it's surface wouldn't seem functional, but somehow seems to work really well for our project (my paraphrazation). It's hard to argue. We don't have a one true leader, and we don't have a corporate master. In fact, we're so multi-faceted, we actua...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>My OSCon 2008 Slides</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/353-My-OSCon-2008-Slides.html</link>
            <guid>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/353-My-OSCon-2008-Slides.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ For those who can't wait for O'Reilly or Slideshare to get their act together, here is a OOo copy of my slides from the Pro PostgreSQL tutorial I gave this morning. Always annoying when you try multiple ways to get something out the door and you end u...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ For those who can't wait for O'Reilly or Slideshare to get their act together, here is a OOo copy of my slides from the Pro PostgreSQL tutorial I gave this morning. Always annoying when you try multiple ways to get something out the door and you end up having to DIY. Oh well, hope everyone enjoyed the talk.   PS. Slideshare, please email sales@omniti.com and ask about how we can help you solve your current reliability problems.   UPDATE: The slides are now available from slidshare. ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:35:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Git-r-done</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/352-Git-r-done.html</link>
            <guid>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/352-Git-r-done.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ A couple months ago we started talking seriously about replacing CVS with a more advanced system for phpPgAdmin. We looked around a little, but ended up going with Git. We didn't have any favorites going in, though we knew moving to subversion was a w...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ A couple months ago we started talking seriously about replacing CVS with a more advanced system for phpPgAdmin. We looked around a little, but ended up going with Git. We didn't have any favorites going in, though we knew moving to subversion was a waste of time, and in the end Git was probably chosen mostly because, of the distributed revision control systems out there, Git is what other projects in our sphere of influence seem to be gravitating toward.   When you read up on Git, it has a lot...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:17:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>get_them_ducats.pl: RSS parsing and screen-scraping, poorly.</title>
            <link>http://failurecasca.de/2008/07/syndication-of-screen-scraping-and-rss/</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since I moved to New York, I&#8217;ve found myself facing an extra hour and a half a day on the train, with nothing to do but wish I had a seat or could afford a closer apartment. It&#8217;s left me scrambling for things to listen to, or to read. So I&...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Since I moved to New York, I&#8217;ve found myself facing an extra hour and a half a day on the train, with nothing to do but wish I had a seat or could afford a closer apartment. It&#8217;s left me scrambling for things to listen to, or to read. So I&#8217;ve done two things. One, I started downloading and listening to podcasts - they require too much of my attention to listen to during work, and generally don&#8217;t hold up against the myriad distractions of home, but episodes of This America...]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Index pruning  Last week I ran across two different blog posts discussing removing duplicate and useless indexes from a database. Coincidentally, I have a nagging TODO item to clean up some indexes in the schema on one of the applications we have been...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Index pruning  Last week I ran across two different blog posts discussing removing duplicate and useless indexes from a database. Coincidentally, I have a nagging TODO item to clean up some indexes in the schema on one of the applications we have been developing. So, with inspiration in hand, here are some techniques to clean up your indexes. Continue reading "Index pruning techniques" ...]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Oren Hurvitz has a great post about LinkedIn's architecture. It's well-written and well thought out. Their architecture has evolved on what appears to be a steady and safe path of improvement. It is well worth a read. I would like to comment on someth...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Oren Hurvitz has a great post about LinkedIn's architecture. It's well-written and well thought out. Their architecture has evolved on what appears to be a steady and safe path of improvement. It is well worth a read. I would like to comment on something I see repeated again and again and is likely misinterpreted by young scalability architects. The statement of what you should expect to lose when you scale up/out. Oren writes: The presentation ends with some tips about scaling. These are oldie...]]></content:encoded>
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            <title>reconnoiter goes... alpha</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I'm not sure if this is official, but I noticed that reconnoiter got it's own fully fledge project page on the labs site. What is reconnoiter? It's a statistical graphing package that can be used for monitoring and trending various pieces of informati...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I'm not sure if this is official, but I noticed that reconnoiter got it's own fully fledge project page on the labs site. What is reconnoiter? It's a statistical graphing package that can be used for monitoring and trending various pieces of information about your server architecture. Think cacti, except that it has a more component driven architecture, and that it uses an RDBMS as the data store, rather than rrd. This means you can not only do standard graphical layouts, but use full fledged S...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Reconnoiter and another platform</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Reconnoiter is coming along. Unlike most open source project, I tend not to talk about mine until their are really useful to people. Over the last year, I've adopted the unhealthy attitude that useful means "shiny front-end." So, I'm blogging to break...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Reconnoiter is coming along. Unlike most open source project, I tend not to talk about mine until their are really useful to people. Over the last year, I've adopted the unhealthy attitude that useful means "shiny front-end." So, I'm blogging to break that attitude and talk a bit about project that doesn't have a shiny front-end... yet.Reconnoiter is built out of years of frustration using tools like RRDTOOL, Munin, Cacti, ZenOSS, Nagios, etc. etc. I have a lot of problems with these tools. Fir...]]></content:encoded>
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