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Moved to EC2 Micro 29 Aug 2011 | 02:47 am
This weekend, I’ve made some substantial changes to the way I’m hosting my blog. I’ve decided to move away from my shared host environment, and onto an Amazon EC2 Micro instance. My setup now uses U...
Monary 0.2.2 23 Jul 2011 | 10:50 am
Thanks to some recent feedback I’ve received, I’ve prepared a new version of Monary – v0.2.2. See this introductory post about Monary. Monary is an array-based querying mechanism for MongoDB, using P...
Front Range Pythoneers: Bottle 3 Mar 2011 | 04:35 am
Last night I gave a talk on the Bottle web framework for Python at the Front Range Pythoneers meetup. Bottle is a web micro-framework for Python which makes it easy to build simple web sites. While c...
Monary: High-performance column queries for MongoDB 23 Jan 2011 | 01:26 pm
MongoDB is a document-oriented database, organized for quick access to records (or rows) of data. When doing analytics on a large data set, it is often desirable to have it in a column-oriented format...
Statistics for schema-free data using PyMongo 12 Nov 2010 | 08:02 pm
MongoDB provides schema-free storage, and is both powerful and flexible because of it. Occasionally, this flexibility can make things confusing. Let’s suppose you’ve been growing a database from seve...
PyMongo and Stored Procedures 3 Aug 2010 | 05:33 am
After giving my talk on PyMongo last week, it became clear that there’s interest in using MongoDB (and other No-Rel databases) as an alternative to a traditional RDMBS for certain purposes. For exampl...
Front Range Pythoneers: Introducing MongoDB 29 Jul 2010 | 10:57 am
I’m giving a talk for the Front Range Pythoneers today on MongoDB. Here are the slides I’ve prepared: Introducing MongoDB
VMWare Fusion and DHCP 15 Jul 2010 | 09:31 am
I’ve become heavily dependent on my the combination of MacBook Pro and VMWare Fusion for my consulting work. VMWare allows me to create all sorts of client-specific virtual machines and test machines,...
Tree Traversal and Search Problems 14 Jul 2010 | 04:16 pm
Some work I’m doing for a client caused me to think more about traversal of tree structures. It sometimes surprises me that there are many people who still prefer using direct recursion for this sort ...
Experiments with MongoDB 13 Jul 2010 | 06:40 am
There have been some big changes going on in the database community, not the least of which is the growing popularity of key-value stores, and these new so-called “NoSQL” databases. (Personally, I d...
