This is the 182nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Make sure to read the whole edition so you do not miss where to submit your SQL limerick!
This week started out with me posting about International Women’s Day, and has me personally attending Confoo (Montreal) which is an excellent conference I hope to return to next year. I learned a lot from confoo, especially the blending nosql and sql session I attended.
This week was also the Hotsos Symposium. …
[Read more]I keep on with my productivity little tricks. This time I’m sharing some of my firefox shortcuts. I’m not in the mood for explaining how to actually install these, so check out the excellent article Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking, if you need help.
# Dictionary search
dict
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s
# Yahoo finance stock
fi http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%s
# Wikipedia page
wp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
slang
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s
# Search in MySQL website/manual
my http://mysql.com/%s
# BitTorrent search
bt …