Podcast appearances and mentions of Brian D Foy

If you could work on anything, would you quit your job to pursue it? Postgres committer and major contributor Melanie Plageman joined Claire Giordano on this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share her story about becoming a Postgres committer. Melanie pivoted from IT consulting to open-source development, driven by her fascination with systems engineering and Postgres open source. What's the secret to getting your patch committed? Feedback is a gift, but how willing are you to embrace it? How important is mentorship—and how important is it to ask for help? Even though crafting clear, concise emails to a technical community might not be easy, Melanie shows how empathy for other Postgres developers can help your work to stand out.Links discussed in this episodePgsql-hackers mailing list: Announcement about new Postgres committersConference: PGConf.dev 2025Blog: Talk, then code by Dave ChenyBlog posts about mentoring by Robert HaasBlog: Mentoring Program Updates by Robert HaasX: Brendan Burn's tweet about the Kubernetes Chop Wood and Carry Water awardAward: Chop Wood Carry WaterBlog: Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2023? by Robert HaasAbstract: What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe for PGConfEU 2024 by Claire GiordanoTalking Postgres Ep18: How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David RowleyWikipedia: PostgreSQL Contributor GiftsCal invite for next Ep 20 of Talking Postgres with Tom Lane to be recorded LIVE on Wed Oct 9, 2024Podcasts & conference videos that Melanie listens to when running that she recommends to Postgres developers:Podcast: Oxide and FriendsPodcast: postgres.fmPodcast: Software Engineering RadioPodcast: Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoPodcast: Two's ComplementSE Radio: Ep 432: Brian D Foy on Perl 7Video: Memory & Caches by Matt GodboltVideos: POSETTE 2024 playlistVideo: RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi MetzYouTube: Brandon FoltzYouTube: CMU Database GroupYouTube: Kernel RecipesYouTube: Linux Plumbers ConferenceYouTube: Matt GodboltYouTube: Onur Mutlu LecturesYouTube: pganalyzeYouTube: PostgreSQL Development ConferenceYouTube: SNIAVideoYouTube: Strange Loop ConferenceYouTube: The Linux Foundation

When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened. He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to you and how to make it easy to recover when things do go wrong. Panel Caleb Fornari Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Guest Brian D. Foy Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links The Hijacking of Perl.com briandfoy.github.io brian d foy brian d foy | O'REILLY Creating Great Programmers with a Software Design Studio - John Ousterhout (Stanford) A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google Can Great Programmers Be Taught? - John Ousterhout - at #SoftGeeks Perl School Publishing GitHub: brian d foy ( briandfoy ) Twitter: brian d foy ( @briandfoy_perl ) Picks Brian- A Philosophy of Software Design Caleb- Geekbot Charles- Who Not How Jeffrey- MS- ISAC

When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened. He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to you and how to make it easy to recover when things do go wrong. Panel Caleb Fornari Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Guest Brian D. Foy Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links The Hijacking of Perl.com briandfoy.github.io brian d foy brian d foy | O'REILLY Creating Great Programmers with a Software Design Studio - John Ousterhout (Stanford) A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google Can Great Programmers Be Taught? - John Ousterhout - at #SoftGeeks Perl School Publishing GitHub: brian d foy ( briandfoy ) Twitter: brian d foy ( @briandfoy_perl ) Picks Brian- A Philosophy of Software Design Caleb- Geekbot Charles- Who Not How Jeffrey- MS- ISAC

Brian D. Foy, author of many Perl books discusses what Perl 7 is, where it’s going, what you need to do to get ready and various pieces advice on making the most of your Perl and programming life.