Magit: in the beginning there was the darkness
Magit is really my favorite porcelain for git, and I’ve just discovered a fun message in it…
Perl 6: new, BUILD, BUILDALL...oh my!
Perl 6 objects are really flexible and powerful, but it is quite easy to get confused about the inheritance chain construction.
Statements with RETURNING: Perl and Java clients
PostgreSQL statements support the ~RETURNING~ predicate that allows a statement that manipulates tuples to return a set of column of such tuples. It is easy to use such statements on a client-basis to get back data not available when the query has been written.
PostgreSQL 11 beta 1 on FreeBSD 11
Compiling PostgreSQL 11 beta 1 on FreeBSD 11 is not hard, but special care has to be taken with regard to readline.
pg_chocolate (aka the end of course in Modena)
Yesterday it was my last session at the local Linux Users’ Group ConoscereLinux course on PostgreSQL. Since the LUG gave me the chance to deliver an extra session, and since all the attendees were fun and nice, I decide to “contribute back”.
Luca Ferrari