PostgreSQL The Art of PostgreSQL is out! If you remember well, a couple of years ago, I wrote about Mastering PostgreSQL, a fantastic book written by my friend Dimitri Fontaine. Dimitri is a long-time PostgreSQL core developer — for example, he
Database Why You Should Care That Your SQL DDL is Transactional I don't write a lot about database management. How come? I'm a software engineer, and like many of my peers, I leverage databases to store data. I should talk more about this! What
Books Mastering PostgreSQL A few months ago, my friend Dimitri Fontaine and I discussed writing books and sharing our knowledge. If you do not know Dimitri yet, he is an old-time PostgreSQL Major Contributor – meaning he
Python From decimal to timestamp with MySQL When working with timestamps, one question that often arises is the precision of those timestamps. Most software is good enough with a precision up to the second, and that's easy. But in some
Common Lisp Overriding cl-json object encoding CL-JSON provides an encoder for Lisp data structures and objects to JSON format. Unfortunately, in some case, its default encoding mechanism for CLOS objects isn't exactly doing the right thing. I'll show you
