Those are notes taken from the talk “PostgreSQL when it is not your job” by Christophe Pettus from PostgreSQL Experts Inc. at DjangoCon Europe 2012. This article describes how to make a basic PostgreSQL configuration: logging, memory, checkpoints, planner. Note: this article is mostly a transcript from the talk by Christophe Pettus: so send all the cookies to him. Thanks ! That’s around 12 configuration options and you’re done. Logging Starting with logging is a good idea because it’s the best way of getting information for configuring the other settings. Read More

The new brew of Foundation 4 is out, focusing on mobile first. Worth trying.

dropzone.js is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews

Nowadays, virtualenv uses --no-site-packages by default. This means that the created virtualenv will not access global site-packages modules ie. /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. To enable global site-packages again, just remove this file:: your_env/lib/python2.7/no-global-site-packages.txt Why would you do that ? Some modules are complicated to install (xpyb) or take too much time to compile (pyqt). Using the distro packages can be pretty useful !

Allison from hacker school published an interesting article about virtualenv for beginners.

Please upgrade.

TL;DR: Intel implements UDEREF equivalent 6 years after PaX, PaX will make use of it on amd64 for improved performance. Read article ….

Linux 3.8 was released !

SourceTree is a free client for Mercurial and Git. The windows release has been announced.

Vim is a great text and code editor for command line interface. OpenVim presents an interactive tutorial which seems nice for new beginners.