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blog archive for Friday February 1st2008
Friday February 1 February 2008
PostgreSQL, I love you...
... if only it could have my children...
I love postgresql. It’s the most wonderful thing since sliced bread.
Specifically, the tsearch2 that comes with it in the contrib directory. Makes my life so much easier.
I’m so glad that theo inflicted postgres on me all those years ago. It’s such a relief to just be able to use real SQL, instead of the cut-down pseudo SQL that MySQL implements.
And before you go harping on about version 5, please note: PostgreSQL has supported SQL 99 syntax for a metric fucktonne longer than your toy RDBMS. I’d prefer to stick with something that’s ...
It's alive... again...
Mwhahahaha
I got bored and finished off the code behind this site.
It’s more of a feed aggregator now than ever before, only it’s only aggregating my feeds. Meh, it’s a cheap way of getting a site that updates all the time.
Of course there’s spammy posts, like my music feed, but that can easily be silenced. I’ve polished here, and there, added little nuggets of usefulness including sitemap.xml main feed… so yeah… should be good now.
Damn, damn, damn
... and double damn...
Having written this lovely bit of code, I an unable to deploy it.
Why? Because I needed python 2.5 for some of it. That requires upgrading python on my gentoo box which is still Python 2.4!
There are circular references all over the place. Crap.