
Speakers Rick Copeland and Bernie Hackett present this mid-level class that explains techniques using MongoDB, PyMongo, and Ming to write
maintainable,...
0 replies - 2278 views - 03/22/12 by Chris Smith in Articles

If you've been following this blog for a while, you've seen me mention MongoDB
more than once. One exciting thing for me is that I'll be co-teaching a...
0 replies - 3211 views - 01/23/12 by Rick Copeland in Articles

Two interesting things about MongoDB.
Primary thing: Mongo introduced a $comment option to queries in version 2.0.0. The comment shows up in the profiler log....
0 replies - 2942 views - 01/02/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles

MongoDB replica sets claim “automatic failover” when a primary server
goes down, and they live up to the claim, but handling failover in your
...
0 replies - 4123 views - 12/16/11 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles

Even with replica sets and journaling,
it’s still a good idea to regularly back up your data. I’m actually
frequently surprised to hear from relatively...
0 replies - 2120 views - 11/28/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles

In part one I talked about testing as Python’s version of compile-time checking. Fully
testing a project is tricky business. This is true across...
0 replies - 1929 views - 11/15/11 by Daniel Gottlieb in Articles

My friend Jamie Rumbelow has started a new project and decided to use Python. He asked a great question over on Stack Overflow which basically came down to...
1 replies - 3484 views - 11/14/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers granted approval
to generic Top-Level Domains that they believe will be the new homes
for brands in...
0 replies - 8358 views - 06/21/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Oracle warned us that Java.net would be in a bug-fixing phase for the first few weeks following the migration. That didn't discourage many community members...
1 replies - 20828 views - 03/16/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 18165 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

"Yet another Google App Engine implementation" is going to become a catchphrase this year and into 2011. We began to see the early stages of GAE...
3 replies - 7714 views - 06/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. ...
0 replies - 15719 views - 03/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The...
5 replies - 21074 views - 03/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose