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I’m going to Brazil!

I have been invited to speak at Latinoware 2009! It’s October 22-24th and I’m giving a talk on non-relational databases in general, MongoDB in particular. I’ll be giving it in English, but it’s going to be simulcast in Spanish and Portugese. I’ve never been to South America, and I’m so excited. The conference is rightContinue reading “I’m going to Brazil!”

OSCON

I’m at OSCON, which is really fun (and exhausting). Last night, when my company’s venture capitalist found out I had MongoDB stickers, he asked me to put them on the tables scattered around the conference area, where everyone sat to talk and surf the web. For some reason, doing so made me feel like aContinue reading “OSCON”

Soccer: No Slimy GirlS Allowed!

Now, I love playing soccer, which I haven’t gotten to do much since high school. Recently, someone created a pickup soccer game meetup for IT professionals (http://www.meetup.com/soccer-nyc/). What with it being geeks+soccer, this sounded awesome, so I requested to join. Denied! Your request to join NYC Turquoise IT – Soccer For IT Professionals has beenContinue reading “Soccer: No Slimy GirlS Allowed!”

How do you make the web reliable?

Andrew and I were talking this morning about how we can count on the New York Times to be accurate, but an article linked to by Reddit is often horribly biased. We began thinking about how to hold the web accountable, and we came up with a nifty idea. Make it a wiki/competition/social network. Here’sContinue reading “How do you make the web reliable?”

CouchDB vs. MongoDB Benchmark

Edit (9/1/10): this benchmark is old, silly, and should probably be ignored in favor of more recent and representative ones. I don’t want to take it down for historical purposes, but seriously people, it was never a good benchmark, it’s over a year old at this point, and both databases have changed a lot. EditContinue reading “CouchDB vs. MongoDB Benchmark”

Because we are the Mutha Flippin Win

I’ve been keeping records of funny and nice things people have said about MongoDB. A lot of them can be found at http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/User+Feedback, but there are some good ones that weren’t quite… “right” for the official page. So, slightly off-color, biased, or weird quotes ahoy: Mailing list: “Guys at Redmond should get a long courseContinue reading “Because we are the Mutha Flippin Win”

Revisionist history

I’ve switched out the first ~10 cartoons, and replaced them with one-shot gags. So there are a bunch of new comics to read, starting with the first one. I’ve always preferred doing The Far Side-/New Yorker-style cartoons, but when I started this site, I thought I should do an ongoing story with characters and plotContinue reading “Revisionist history”

PHP Extension Wiki

I started a wiki on this site (http://www.kchodorow.com/php) to write down all the stuff I learn about writiing PHP extensions. If anyone else has experience with them, feel free to add or edit articles. Some basics: a PHP extension is written in C. In fact, PHP itself is written in C, so there’s a lotContinue reading “PHP Extension Wiki”

From Russia with Bugs

My Windows partition got a virus. Ugh. Somehow I’ve managed to avoid this, I’ve never gotten a virus on any of my computers before. Anyway, being the geek I am, I decided to get it off my computer without any of this fancy-shmancy (expensive) anti-virus software. My journey: 1. I tried to edit my registry.Continue reading “From Russia with Bugs”

Get on the bus, Gus

I booted into OS X today and tried running the unit tests for my PHP driver. It chugged away for a while, then gave me “bus error”. Great. Gotta love C error messages. I narrowed it down to when I insert 253 or more elements into MongoDB. Now, that number was suspiciously close to 256,Continue reading “Get on the bus, Gus”