With Thanks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:36:51 -0400

Thanks to David, I have recovered the articles from the history, and will be adding the back to the archives as time permits. Mostly while I wait on things to build for testing.

Not Dead...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:30:11 -0400

So no, the project isn't dead, just buried a little. I guess a little background is in order. I work primarily on a laptop. Back in April, my laptop lost a hard drive. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but I had made the mistake of using a Maxtor External hard disk as my primary backup device using Time Machine since January 1. This proved to be a very big mistake, as when I went to restore from said back up, the Maxtor proved once again why I shouldn't trust them, it tanked as well. Taking with it quite a bit of my work and all of the website updated between January and April. Nothing else was effected, as it was all in SVN, just the website (which is also now in SVN).

So in the process of rebuilding, things around here have been left largely to languish. Now that I have more or less gotten caught up, that is now changing.

First, for a while, I had considered pulling the PostgreSQL for Mac website back into my business website to make management and updating easier. After a lot of thought and consideration, I concluded that it simply did not make sense in the long run. With the decision made, the next step was to decide what to do about the site. I have elected to adopt a new visual theme ( Smooth Blue from Blueball Designs ), and to archive off the news prior to January without recovering the news between January and April.

That is what you see here.

Next, it has been brought to my attention that there is not an easy way to contact me directly from the website. Uh, oops? :), there is now a contact me form on the top menu to facilitate contacting me.

Last, at least for the moment, is news regarding 8.3.3. Initially, I was going to stop doing full installer builds, as PostgreSQL.org seemed to be favoring the EnterpriseDB Mac installer, but after using it an installing it, I feel that there is a place for both. I still feel that the Mac market requires more than just an installer to the same old Unix command line interface. So, I am working on getting a new build up and running. I suspect it will be the weekend before I have something ready to release. In addition, despite trying to generate interest in making a general API to manage the configuration issues in PostgreSQL I cannot seem to get any response other than if the command line is too hard for you, go elsewhere, I am going to make a go at making something work for the Mac users that want a better interface. That will not be an immediate impact, but will be seen in the not to distant future.

It is a pretty big project, but I think from an impact to Mac users, it is among the most important to tackle next, as many of us, even those that are comfortable doing so, don't like using the command line and vi to modify configuration files. The limitation is that for this initial pass, these are things that will only work on the server, you won't be able to run them on the client side (except to edit configuration files for a local copy of PostgreSQL for local testing prior to moving them to a production server perhaps).

Archived News

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:29:30 -0400

8.2.6 and 8.3 coming in parallel
8.2.6
Prepping 8.2.6
PostgreSQL 8.3
Measuring Interest

News | PostgreSQL for Mac | Andy Satori

With Thanks

Not Dead...

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