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Postgres guide is designed as a guide for beginners and experienced users to find specific tips and explore tools available within Postgres. - Andrew

Brainstorming didn’t unleash the potential of the group, but rather made each individual less creative. Although the findings did nothing to hurt brainstorming’s popularity, numerous follow-up studies have come to the same conclusion. Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, has summarized the science: "Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas." - Andrew

Make a game in Java - Andrew

An open-source C++ library for developing high-performance parallel applications. Modeled after the C++ Standard Template Library. - Andrew

Alenka is a modern analytical database engine written to take advantage of vector based processing and high bandwidth of modern GPUs. - Andrew

Slides from QConSF Nov 19th, 2011 focusing this time on describing the globally distributed and scaled industrial strength Java Platform as a Service that Netflix has built and run on top of AWS. - Andrew

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures - Andrew

Benchmarks of disk speed for different instance sizes - Andrew

Cryptophane is an easy-to-use Windows application that works with GnuPG - Andrew

How queries work in sharded environments - Andrew

Drawing tool in the browser - Andrew

Completely accurate. Even 15 hours into the game, it is still the way he describes it. - Andrew

Lessons on Japanese - Andrew

foldl and foldr considered slightly harmful - Andrew

High quality rain loop - Andrew

Free, open source Windows CD/DVD burning - Andrew

Simple whiteboard app - Andrew

The Colorado-based incubator's annual Investor Day brought 13 fledgling companies in front of several dozen investors to whom they were pitching requests for mentoring and seed funding. - Andrew

DataFabric provides flexible database connection switching for ActiveRecord - Andrew

Hilarious. Especially funny comments about Natal. - Andrew

Table of different queuing systems - Andrew

Pass through streaming using X-Sendfile - Andrew

Fun with tile overlays on Google Maps - Andrew

Teaching as a marketing strategy - Andrew

Fast forward to minute 19 - Andrew

Medford, MA wine shop. Has tastings. - Andrew

Active calendar of wine events including tastings, dinners, and instruction. - Andrew

For sale: secret underground lair. - Andrew

ILoveSketch, a 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models. - Andrew

Mentions a book by Tony Ulwick called What Customers Want - Andrew