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PGBR 2011 recap

This is a summary of what I saw and heard at PGBR 2011. The night before the conference I had the opportunity to greet Alvaro Herrera, Bruce Momjian, Dave Page and Greg Smith. The conference opened on Thursday 3rd November … Continue reading

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A Multi-Layered Test Cake

A recurrent theme in software engineering are the multiple layers (or tiers) into which systems are subdivided. In the ideal case, a given layer only interacts with the immediate layers “above” and “below” it. In practice, that clean separation of … Continue reading

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SQL Version Control System Design Issues

The initial release of Pyrseas is nearing completion. As noted elsewhere, Pyrseas was born to follow through on the concepts of the Andromeda Project. The idea of using a data dictionary specified in JSON or YAML was perhaps the most … Continue reading

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