Category Archives: Databases

OSCON: Wednesday Morning

I am going to the OSCON sessions today and the rest of the week. I missed most of the keynotes this morning. I did [Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/14017) by Simon Peyton-Jones and Haskell guy at Microsoft. He described the idea of transaction memory as the alternative to locking for concurrent programming. Transactional memory basically […]

Slony Presentation

I will giving a presentation on [Slony](http://slony.info) tomorrow 4/17 at 7 pm for the [Portland PostgreSQL Users Group](http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx/) at [FreeGeek](http://www.freegeek.org/).