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OSCON 2008 Tutorials: A perspective

I’ve been at OSCON 2008, and I’ve been keeping pretty good notes on the tutorials I’ve attended. GitHub has a great feature if you take notes in rdoc, making nice HTML when it’s viewed online. Here’s some links to my notes: Pro PostgreSQL This talk was alright, but it wasn’t really tailored for people who hadn’t used Postgres extensively. Yet, I’m sure the notes will come in handy in the future. Introduction to Django This was an awesome talk. He [...]

Mini-ITX obsession

With the release of the Intel Atom, my obsession with the mini-itx standard has come back. It’s amazingly inexpensive, and much better than the past king of the arean, VIA. You can now get one of these for just $82, which includes a motherboard and an Atom 230 processor clocking in at 1.6 Ghz and 4 Watts! I need it.