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  1. Turning off the pager in psql

    psql, the command line PostgreSQL tool is great. By default if the output of some command (or query) takes too much screen space, psql will use your default unix terminal pager to page through results.

    Sometimes you want to turn this off. This can happen if you want to see ...

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  2. First Payment

    Since it's actually possible for me to recieve payments, I have started to recieve money from this Kindle Maps adventure.

    It's great to be on the road to viable micro-business. All I have to do is several orders of magnitude increases in sales. :)

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  3. Viewing all PostgreSQL queries

    When debugging an application that uses PostgreSQL it can be very helpful to see what queries are actually being sent to the server. This can allow you to try running the queries yourself and you can see what results are coming back.

    On a normal PostgreSQL 8.4 install on ...

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  4. Competition!

    While browsing around the Amazon Kindle Store, I found someone else selling loads of Maps on the Kindle. They have a much larger selection than I do, hundreds of maps. It's good to see someone else validate my theory that you can sell maps on the Kindle.

    However from ...

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  5. How to echo to stderr

    On the unix command line, each command can print to stdout (standard output) or stderr (standard error). By convention, error messages go to stderr, and normal messages go to stdout. You usually connect stdout to the stdin (standard input) of another process. Having a long pipe of commands and this ...

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  6. 2011 Q2 report

    In the spirit of openness and sharing (and since I've learned from other microbusinesses online that are open), I'm going to file reports on how things are going. Quaterly is a good benchmark, so I'll start with that.

    This quarter was launch quarter when I started. I ...

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  7. Kindle Screen Size

    A map (in book form) is a sequence of pages, you can't have a big fold out map on a Kindle! So I had to make each page the same size as a

    The Kindle 3 has the following screen sizes:

    • height: 800 pixels
    • width: 600 pixels
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