MongoDB: The Definitive Guide is now available in bookstores everywhere! (Or at least on Amazon.) Please pick up a copy! Some interesting things I learned about the process of publishing: There are professional indexers who write the index. This amazes me, because we had to proofread our index and I’ve never been so bored inContinue reading “Writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide”
Category Archives: Personal
Buying an Mahattan Co-op
Today, Andrew and I close on an apartment in Chelsea. About a year and a half ago, I subscribed to a feed from streeteasy.com, which is a really awesome site. They do custom RSS feeds for any search, so I subscribed to the places in our price range in the neighborhoods we were interested in.Continue reading “Buying an Mahattan Co-op”
I Never Thought I’d Be On a Book
I’ve pretty much disappeared for the last few weeks because I’ve been finishing up MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, now available for pre-sale! It’s a comprehensive reference to MongoDB which should be useful for everyone, from a beginner who has never touched the database before to a core MongoDB developer (or so two have claimed… I’mContinue reading “I Never Thought I’d Be On a Book”
Once and Future Presentations
On Monday, I gave a presentation on MongoDB to the San Francisco MySQL user group. It was a lot of fun, you can watch the recording on ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/3708550Streaming Video by Ustream.TV Apparently the audio was buzzy (I haven’t actually listened to it myself yet). The audience especially enjoyed this slide about MySQL’s current situation:Continue reading “Once and Future Presentations”
Happy Belated Ada Lovelace Day!
Check out my guest post at php|architect on the care and feeding of female programmers.
St. Clementine’s Day
The night before Valentine’s Day, I got Andrew a crate of clementines (they’re already gone). Yesterday, the Doghouse Diaries ran: I came down with a cold on Friday and neither of us wanted to do anything for Valentine’s Day so we ended up playing Legend of Zelda most of it. When we got hungry, we startedContinue reading “St. Clementine’s Day”
Washington DC
I’m giving a talk at DC PHP in… oh… 40 minutes. I started the day in New York City, and hopefully will make it back there tonight. Long day. This morning, when I got to Penn Station, I tried to use the ticket machine’s barcode scanner. It usually scans my confirmation page and prints outContinue reading “Washington DC”
Public Speaking
I talked at LILUG (Long Island Linux User Group) about MongoDB on Tuesday, which was really fun. Not that it started out all that well. One of LILUG’s officer’s picked me up at the station. We had… an imperfect fusion of souls. He told me, on the way to the pub, that he was sickContinue reading “Public Speaking”
Five Worst Places for Mosquito Bites
If there is a mosquito within 50 feet of me, it will find me and bite me. I am one of those people that attracts them like a magnet. A delicious, blood-filled magnet. Anyway, these are the places you should avoid getting bitten: 1. Face – Could be forhead, nose, cheek, eyelid… they all lookContinue reading “Five Worst Places for Mosquito Bites”
