Picture of the Day: Feuerzangenbowle, 2022-12-03
Thomas Klausner - domm
Things I learned at PGConf.EU 2022
2022-10-28, Perl
The biggest yearly European Postgres, PGConf.EU took place from 26th to 28th October in Berlin. As I have a bunch of friends in Berlin and like Postgres, I decided to attend. I also submitted a talk but wasn't accepted (which in the end did not surprise me, as they got more than 260 submissions and could only accept ~80). So after a nice and ...
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Things I learned at PGDay Austria
2022-09-19, Perl
On Friday 16th the third PGDay Austria took place in Vienna. PGday is a single day PostgreSQL conference with a German and an English track. As I'm using Postgres as my preferred database engine, and also on our most recent project I decided (on rather short notice) to attend.
Here's what I learned:
Everybody suffers from the knapsack problem, ...
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Paris (22.7. - 26.7.)
2022-07-26, Bretagne (and Paris)
Last stop: Paris!
We stayed in a friends apartment near Canal Saint Martin / Goncourt - a good location (with a rather loud bar next door, but we came prepared)
We used velib on two days (23 journeys, 66km). On both days it started very nice (especially on Sunday), but turned out to be a bit stressy, as it's hard to find a free spot to "park" ...
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Saint Malo (18.7. - 21.7.)
2022-07-21, Bretagne (and Paris)
After we finally made it to Saint Malo, we spend a few relaxing days there.
Les Bains de Mer, the pool with the diving platform filled by the flood is genius. Luckily our hotel was right next to it!
I did a sea kayak half-day tour. Very nice, first time I was sea-kayaking, and we also get some decent weather (cloudy, so not too hot, and a bit ...
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