Postgres and Open Source Experts

It is with regret that I announce that PgNext is cancelled. I am not sure what is next for the PostgreSQL Conference series. The reasons are long and myriad and I will not bore you with them. However I will present the following video:


If you can't see the video, here is the video link.

That video represents why I would put on the conferences. They were …

Once upon a time, JD was a assistant manager for Block Buster video. This was a very long time ago and before a 23 month employment stint at Powells Books. It was at Powells that the world of computers was actually introduced to me as a viable employment option. While there I designed a special order database in DBase IV, was introduced to University Ingres, went through Book Buyer …

As a reminder, the CFP for PgNext is still open. We are in Denver this year, let's make it rock! This year we are keeping it simple and getting back to roots. The conference is about community, networking with professionals, learning and in general having a good time. Who can't have a good time in Denver?

Our team has been hard at work on several things. One is the URI patch for libpq which was just committed and sponsored by Heroku (Thanks Heroku). This is a novel patch that brings standard URI connection handling to libpq and any client/driver that decides to implement the functionality. You can see the patch here.

We are still actively working on PgNext: The Next PostgreSQL Conference. The folks …

West is wrapped up. It was smaller. We split the attendees between Postgres Open and Surge. It was a good conference. We received a lot of positive feedback and I was even able to be nice (stop laughing, just ask others :P) to people for the conference.

We were able to fund two features for PostgreSQL, both of which will hopefully hit for 9.2. The first is work to …

PgWest is only a week a way folks, let's get those registrations in!

This year we have a diverse range of topics on PostgreSQL. Of course we have all the standard topics on backups, performance, mvcc but we also have some very interesting presentations coming from VMWare, Fusion-IO and Translattice.

• You can find the schedule here.
• Registration is open and is available here.

As we all know, PgWest is in San Jose this year in just under 3 weeks. The trainings are filling up fast and you will want to get your registrations in. We have great trainings on:

• Performance
• High Availability
• Administration
• Ruby on Rails (with PostgreSQL focus)
• Normalization
• DRBD

  These are filling up fast, so you will want to get your registration in.

We have another stellar year of content at PostgreSQL Conference West. The first round of talks has been reviewed and they are now published. There are some more talks on the way so stay tuned for the second round. We have also opened early registration, although we don't have the training options up yet. Take a look and watch for more official announcement style stuff soon.

Of note, Jim …

A while ago a gentlemen by the name of Josh (Abstrct) McDougall contacted me about a game he created and subsequent contest being held at DEFCON 19. What makes this so interesting is the majority of the game was created in PostgreSQL. This truly exposed the power of PostgreSQL and the ability to create business (or data) logic directly within the database instead of just using the database as a …