You may have noticed that the Postgres developers released a new version of the PostgreSQL database server. There are particular reasons why I like working with Postgres: trivial data import and export is one of them. Take for example the following command (issued in psql):
COPY users FROM '/home/arthur/ascii_users.csv' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' NULL AS 'null';
In case your ODBC driver goes kaboom, there you have the solution!
This week two other announcements stood out: First, OpenOffice’s OpenDocument format became an ISO standard. And then Microsoft Office’s Open XML, by way of the ECMA, made it to the ISO body too. Saillant detail is that IBM apparently voted against this: as a vocal supporter of the other format, IBM said that a vote for Open XML was a vote about the past.
I read that some US mapmakers, are planning to exclude communities with fewer than 2,500 people. I guess, there is always Google Maps or Microsoft Live Map Earth Something uh-huh to find these communities, provided that you have high-speed.
And then, I heard about some Hydro One problem, apparently related to a CEO overcharging a creditcard (his secretary’s) and I thought by myself “Hey, this Hydro One, it rings a bell“. And bunnies. Lots of bunnies, as you can tell from the picture above.