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Wenn man nach zwei Wochen Abwesenheit abends wieder heim kommt, hat man nicht unbedingt Lust auf Kochen. Also haben wir dem "House of Steaks - Ortega" (gegenüber vom Citycarré) in Magdeburg einen Besuch abgestattet.

Parkplätze gibt es trotz der zentralen Lage gleich um die Ecke - Vorsicht, ist eine Einbahnstraße.

Das Ambiente im Lokal ist gemütlich, wir haben sofort einen Platz bekommen und unsere Bestellung ging auch schnell an die Bedienung. Das Essen (ein Hüftsteak und ein Filetsteak) war ausgezeichnet, das als "durch" bestellte Steak meiner Frau war auch wirklich wie gewünscht durchgebraten (wichtig wegen Schwangerschaft und rohem Fleisch).

Einziges Manko: wie anscheinend überall in Magdeburg kümmert sich niemand um leere Gläser. Kein Manko, aber ein Hinweis: Kredit- und EC-Karten werden nicht akzeptiert, also Bargeld mitbringen ;-)

Alles in allem ist das Restaurant eine gute Empfehlung.

Continuing our two-day event "PGDay" we have seen more interesting talks and devroom sessions on the second day.

Friday in the evening we had a party which was sponsored by EnterpriseDB. Thank's a lot!

Today in the closing note Gabriele told us that we drank only half of the free beer and we had to continue the party after PGDay was officially closed.

At Frankfurt/Main airport (Fraport), if you look outside terminal A, sometimes you have this curious view:

A plane in front of a collapsed building and several construction sites. Looks a bit like urban warfare.

The usual note: PGDay.org in Prato is a smashing success ;-)

Registration took a bit longer than expected because of a lot visitors so the keynote started with several minutes delay. It was worth waiting, the speakers had a good audience:

Magnus and i arrived early in Prato. Later on wednesday in the night Dave and Greg joined us. So on thursday we had time to help preparing PGday.

Oh, and i heard, in the evening the group got lost again in Prato - the third time for some of them ;-)

Yesterday Magnus and i met on Frankfurt/Main airport and flew together to Florence. People, don't try to find this ominous CAP bus station on the highway! Just take the ATAF bus heading to Florence station, the stop is right outside the airport near all the white cabs. You can't miss it. The bus driver sells you a ticket for 4,50€ to Santa Maria Novella. On the station you need another ticket, it cost 1,80€ but the ticket machine knows about english. You have to look for a train heading to "Lucca".

In Prato we first decided to get some food and found a nice restaurant. On the way back we got lost in the city and several minutes later found the Prato Linux User Group. From there the way back to the hotel is easy - and the porter told us Gabriele was just here and he will join us at the PLUG house later. Ok, back to where we came from ;-)

We really met Gabriele and he leaved short after to pick up Dave and Greg on the airport. After they checked in we decided to get a last beer, walked into the city and found a nice pub, One beer later we called it a day and on the way back to the hotel - we got lost again ;-) Don't try Google Maps on your iPhone in a city, it's not really helpful. And bring money, according to Greg most ATM aren't working in Prato and he tried several cash machines *g*

As said before: you need two elephants for replication.

Open Source Day in Magdeburg last weekend gave me another chance to proof this statement.

Die Vortragsunterlagen für meinen Vortrag und meinen Workshop beim Open Source Tag an der Universität in Magdeburg sind online:

Vortrag: Welche Datenbank? Warum PostgreSQL? (PDF)

Workshop: PostgreSQL optimieren. (PDF)