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YAPC Europe in Kiev 25 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
This year's YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) Europe was held in Kiev, Ukraine on August 12-14. There was a full schedule of three tracks of interesting talks at the conference, spread over three day...
Log Jam: Be careful with local syslog 23 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Elephant by Shaun Tarlton All they really wanted to do is log any query that takes over 10 seconds. Most of their queries are very simple and fast, but the application generates a few complicated que...
We’re hiring Rails developers! 23 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
We’re looking for a few more talented Ruby on Rails developers to consult with our clients and develop their web applications. Do you like to focus on solving business problems? Do you take responsibi...
The Un-unaccentable Character 19 Aug 2013 | 06:34 am
I typed "Unicode" into an online translator, and it responded saying it had no idea what the language was but it roughly translates to "Surprise!" Recently a client sent over a problem getting some o...
Give me my /var/log/rpmpkgs back! 12 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
When switching from RHEL5 to RHEL6 everyone had fears and hopes about things which would have been lost and gained. One of the lost ones is /var/log/rpmpkgs which is a nice tool which helps system ad...
Speeding Up Some FDW Queries 8 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
There was a very interesting question about PostgreSQL optimization. It was about speeding up a query on foreign tables. Introduction Let’s take a couple of tables and a view created on the top of t...
Buy One Get One Promotion with Spree 7 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Implementing a "Buy One, Get One Free" promotion in Spree requires implementation of a custom promotion action and appropriate use of existing promotion rules. This article implements the promotion by...
Little Spree Big Performance Problems 5 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Recently I worked on an online food store serving an area with very little infrastructure. As a result, the orders tended to be really big with lots of products. The website worked in the following e...
Disney Liquid Galaxy in Sao Paolo 2 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
End Point recently had the pleasure to work with Disney and Google to bring the Liquid Galaxy to Disney Expo in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Disney saw the Liquid Galaxy at the Google office in Sao Paulo and re...
Merging JSONs in PostgreSQL 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
PostgreSQL's JSON support is great, however there is one thing missing, and it will be missing in the next PostgreSQL release. It is not too easy to manipulate the values stored in such a JSON field. ...
