- So You're Coming to a Career Fair
Computer science students need to learn how to distinguish themselves.
- Third Normal Form and Ultimate Truth
I have an opinion: most people learned about relational databases as if RDBMSes were designed to store the ultimate truth about some data. They figured that once the schema had been properly diagrammed and normalized, then they could [ ... ]
- Philly MongoDB User Group: Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks
Photo (C) Parent5446 I'll be recapping last week's talk on Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks this Thursday at 7pm, in Philadelphia, at the Philly MongoDB User Group's inaugural meetup. We'll be at the Devnuts office, at [ ... ]
- Slides from my talk on asynchronous web frameworks, Python, and MongoDB
Here's the slides for the talk I gave at the NYC Python Meetup tonight, on asynchronous web frameworks, Python, and MongoDB. Direct link. Embedded: Python, async web frameworks, and MongoDB View more PowerPoint from emptysquare
- This Thursday: a talk on Python, MongoDB, and asynchronous web frameworks
This Thursday in NYC I'm talking about Python, MongoDB, and asynchronous web frameworks at a meetup called For the Love of Python: Wine tasting, Red velvet cupcakes, and Tech Talks. The talk is a work in progress. To be strictly accurate, I [ ... ]
- Tornado Unittesting: Eventually Correct
Photo: Tim Green I'm a fan of Tornado, one of the major async web frameworks for Python, but unittesting async code is a total pain. I'm going to review what the problem is, look at some klutzy solutions, and propose a better way. If you don't [ ... ]
- The Rise of Developeronomics
I have some thoughts about Venkatesh Rao's Forbes article, "The Rise of Developeronomics". The article, in brief, argues that "software is now the core function of every company, no matter what it makes," and that, as "software eats the [ ... ]
- 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 [ ... ]
- 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 [ ... ]
- Consistency in MongoDB
Friend and colleague Dan has a nice post on ensuring consistency in MongoDB by maintaining a version number in your documents.