Re: december meeting wrapup

On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:

> During introductions (which happened at the end of the meeting), we
> learned not only that James is working on an "Anti-Rails"
> framework, but that we had Audrey, the Rails developer, on hand --
> setting the stage for our first PDXPUG grudge match.

Sounds like fun. Sorry I missed it. As someone who has worked on both
sides now, I'd have had fun with that matchup!

> I really enjoyed her approach to project sharing -- I'd love to
> hear impressions from the rest of you who were there. We're trying
> to come up with re-occurring features, and it would be nice if
> different people could drop in and give a presentation from their
> project journals.

I found Gabrielle's 15 minute PDX.pm presentation last year highly
memorable. If this latest presentation was in the same style, I'm
sure you all found it highly entertaining.

> I've gotten two volunteers for April/May presentations, but we need
> some ideas for January/February/March! Please don't be shy.
>
> Ideas:
> * Something awesome you're doing with 8.2
> * Something horrible 8.2 fixed for you
> * Some other procedural language presentation
> * Python and PostgreSQL
> * the PostgreSQL C API

I had offered to do something on this, hadn't I? Alas, I have far
less time these days than when I offered. But I could probably put
together something in a few hours based on a data type I created.
It'd be more on how to create new data types in C than on the Pg API.
But it might be better if I first did a presentation on creating new
data types with DOMAINs. I owe ORA an article on that, anyway, so I
have to find the tuits eventually. ;-)

> * Slony
> * What you wish would be in 8.3
> * Why you miss David Wheeler at our meetings

Because of the beer! He misses the beer!

> We will close with the obligatory MySQL update. Randal helped us
> out last night with the provocative "MySQL has dropped support for
> most Linux Distributions." Please keep an eye out for similar gems!

I've got a growing list.

> Finally, Rafael raised the spectre of podcasting once again. I
> will get everything together to actually do the podcast next time.
> If anyone has a USB thumb-drive that they can commit to bringing to
> the meeting to help facilitate this, please let me know.

What happened to the recording of my last talk?

> Have a lovely holiday! I'm on vacation starting Friday... so see
> you after the new year.

Happy new year, everyone!

Cheers,

David