- More photos of Scott
Photos: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis More photos from September of Scott in Chicago. More Chicago pix on Flickr.
- Book: MongoDB In Action
My colleague at 10gen Kyle Banker has published his book MongoDB in Action: MongoDB in Action is a comprehensive guide to MongoDB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its [ ... ]
- Photo Fire Sale - Everything Must Go!
Luca Pizzaroni. Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis I want to sell the remainder of the prints from my solo show at the Lower East Side Visitor Center. All prints are sold framed, 16 inches square for $75. View these prints at the Lower East Side [ ... ]
- Spontaneous Shrines
Spontaneous shrine in Kern County, CA. Photo: Shady Grove Oliver My friend Shady Grove Oliver blogs about spontaneous shrines. She writes that a "type of stranger-ritual is performed by passersby who stop or change course specifically [ ... ]
- Transcendental Meditation for veterans
Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images How interesting—David Lynch, who's practiced Transcendental Meditation for 40 years, gives a million dollars to teach TM to veterans. I've never practiced TM and I don't know much about it, [ ... ]
- Scott
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis September 17, 2011. Scott in Chicago.
- New York C++ Meetup recap
My gig, 10gen, sponsored the The New York C++ Developers meetup tonight. Roman Shtylman presented a just-the-facts primer on writing C++ extensions for Node.js. The use cases were: if you need to spawn threads, if you need to interface [ ... ]
- Matthew
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis November 7, 2011. Matthew in Union Square.
- 3D printed math sculptures!
I happened across this hyperdodecahedron sculpture on Shapeways, available in a dozen materials. It's designed by Bathsheba Grossman, who has a series of math art on her site.
- Consistency in MongoDB
Friend and colleague Dan has a nice post on ensuring consistency in MongoDB by maintaining a version number in your documents.