Jul 10 2009
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Dimitri Fontaine: prefix 1.0~rc2-1
I’ve been having problem with building both
postgresql-8.3-prefix andpostgresql-8.4-prefix debian packages from the same source package, andfixing the packaging issue forced me into…
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Andrew Dunstan: First play with window functions
There are two very cool features in relase 8.4 of Postgres: Common Table Expressions and Windowing Functions. These blow everything else out of the water on the coolness scale, IMNSHO, even parallel…
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Robert Treat: Three Cheers for the search_path!!!
Lately the search_path feature has been getting a bum wrap. People deriding it over security concerns, usability issues, and down right lack of usefulness. Well my friends, I say don’t listen to…
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Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL 8.4 unnest and generate_series
In this issue we shall be celebrating the arrival of PostgreSQL 8.4 by showcasing the new treatsthat PostgreSQL 8.4 has to offer. Although 8.4 has some nice big ticket items like Windowing…
Jul 09 2009
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23andMe Launches $99 Kit To Spur Its ‘Research Revolution’
23andMe isn’t making too many headlines in tech circles any more, but there’s little doubt in my mind that it, or at least companies like it, will become incredibly important over the next…
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WSOP Update: Calacanis Out, Sacks Still In (And Bails On TechCrunch Event)
Update on the tech gurus at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We were tracking four players: Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis, Geni/Yammer…
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Cc:Betty Shows Some Twitter Love, Integrates Twitter Into Email Organization Platform
Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, is the latest startup to catch the Twitter bug. The email collaboration service is integrating with Twitter, so that users of…
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Chrome OS Partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments
Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system. In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners.
First of all, the software…
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Pre-order Your .CM Domain Now, Start Making Money Off Domain Typos Soon!
I distinctly remember reading this Business 2.0 Magazine piece published back in May 2007 about Kevin Ham, ‘the most powerful dotcom mogul you’ve never heard of’. If you’re interested in…
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Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast
Image licensing network GumGum has raised $2.6 million in and extended Series A funding round led by GRP Venture Partners with First Round Capital participating. This brings GumGum’s…
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Why We Need To Chill About ChromeOS
We at CrunchGear have been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s …
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Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t…
