Wednesday, September 25, 2013

What is coming in LedgerSMB 1.4?

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I figure it is a good time to review the changes that are going into 1.4 and discuss where things are going, where expected features have ch...
Friday, September 13, 2013

PostgreSQL, Community Development, and Support

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With the impressive release of PostgreSQL 9.3 I have noticed that a number of journalists seem to only mention a single provider of suppor...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Encryption: MySQL vs PostgreSQL

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First a note, all my tests involved a relatively simple table with a schema like this (column names did vary): CREATE TABLE enctest (    ...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

When to use SELECT * in PostgreSQL

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In LedgerSMB we use a lot of queries which involve SELECT *.  Many people consider SELECT * harmful but there are several cases where it is ...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

In defence of hand coded SQL

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One common comment I get when I point out I hand-write all my SQL queries rather than relying on an ORM or the like is that this is drudge w...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Design of Efficito's PostgreSQL-centric automation environment

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One of the challenges of setting up a cloud hosting environment is ensuring that systems are as configured and that the desired state is one...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Tangent: Design thougths about next gen PKI in today's world

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With the revelations of massive surveillance by the NSA on Americans, I have thought a bit about how to securely set up end to end cryptogra...