- 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.
- Mongo profiling hacks
Log the line number of your code that made each MongoDB query.
- NYC Python Meetup recap
I went to the NYC Python Meetup tonight at an East Village Bar. We drank, we ate pizza, we fended off recruiters (they knew they couldn't recruit at the meetup proper, but one ambushed me as I left!), and heard two quirky presentations: [ ... ]
- More on Google Reader
Two quick followups to my rant against Google Reader's new UI the other day: Followup the first: A friend from Google points out that you can hit the F key to toggle all the bullshit away and just see your list of articles: In fact, if you hit '?' [ ... ]
- MakerBot in the New York Times
My friend and old Wireless Generation colleague Adam Mayer's 3D-printer startup is featured in the New York Times.
- Unittests' code coverage in PyCharm
PyCharm's my favorite IDE in years. Granted, learning how to use it can be like the first few minutes of Flight of the Navigator, but whenever I begin a new kind of task, PyCharm surprises me with the depth of its feature set. Today was my first [ ... ]
- I'm the new Python Evangelist at 10gen
Photo: Russell Lee Today's my first day at 10gen, working on the Python driver for MongoDB. I have a lot of ideas about what to do next, but we shall see what the next few months bring. My first priorities are to improve testing for pymongo, [ ... ]
- Against the new Google Reader UI
The update to Google Reader highlights a profound error in Google's interface updates: Each update decreases information density. With Google Reader's new interface, I can see a list of only 12 new articles. I subscribe to 115 blogs, so I [ ... ]