Double Shot #632

12 is really too many billable hours for one day.

• PostageApp - SMTP mailing service that integrates directly via a Rails plugin.
• IBM DB2 Gem Version 2.0.0 Released - For Rails/ActiveRecord, now supporting paramaterized queries.
• Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server - A basic introduction.
• Table size, database size - Determining physical storage sizes with PostgreSQL.
• Setting PostgreSQL’s SHMMAX in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - How to temporarily bump up shared buffers without rebooting - works in Snow Leopard too. He's a bit confused about SHMALL, though, which is in pages rather than bytes on OS X.
• KyngChaos PostgreSQL - Precompiled OS X installers, including server, client, PostGIS, and pgRouting.
• Rails 3 Reading Material - Link list from Maxim Chernyak.
• What is Shared Memory - Straightforward explanation of OS X shared buffers with some alternative settings.
• Telephone - SIP/VOIP app for OS X.
• Twitter Unstupidify - Greasemonkey script from Peter Cooper, for those of us who dislike the new retweets.

Comments

[Andris]

BTW, since tuning postgres is wizardry (for a regular developer anyway), might want to check out pgtune, I remember it was easy to use and less time consuming than reading the docs & list archives.

[Mike Gunderloy]

Thanks! Looks useful.