Introduction I’ve recently been studying an online MongoDB course from 10gen, the developers of MongoDB. MongoDB is a NoSQL database which offers a ton of features, including replica sets with automatic failover. This isn’t a beginner’s HOWTO on MongoDB; for … Continue reading
I’m a huge fan of social networking, and post regularly on Facebook, and on Twitter under the handle @yeurch. I think Facebook is a great tool for keeping up to date with people I know (or knew) in real life, … Continue reading
In my post last year about setting up Mercurial on IIS, I left it as an exercise for the reader to allow it so that index.py could be left out of the URLs. As an example, we want to be … Continue reading
Last week, I installed Visual Studio 2012, to play around with new features. We’re probably not ready to move our production code to VS2012 yet, but I just wanted to see what’s new. I should probably have installed it in … Continue reading
A few years ago, a former manager of mine taught me a valuable lesson about estimating the time it will take to complete a task in order to best meet expectations. Having done a significant amount of estimation recently, it … Continue reading
This content is based heavily upon an answer I posted on StackOverflow. Oh, ok then, it’s almost an exact copy. Recently, I’ve ripped WCF out of the heart of a project at work, and replaced it with ServiceStack. There were … Continue reading
Yesterday lunchtime, Lewis Peckover (@lewispeckover) noticed that mobile browsers on O2’s UK network were sending the phone’s number to websites as an HTTP header, resulting in this information being available to the websites browsed. This information is not present when … Continue reading
Wrong! The wording of the proposed SOPA legislation means that a huge number of websites can be classed as “facilitating the commission of copyright infringement”. For example: A blog which allows users to post comments An e-commerce site which allows … Continue reading
Yesterday, the world lost a great visionary in Steve Jobs, who is synonymous with the Apple brand he co-founded. While reading reports of his death, I came across this great quote of his which I thought I’d share: No one … Continue reading
For years and years, I’ve used open source applications and libraries. The more I used, the more I felt guilty for taking advantage of other people’s hard work. I’m not sure I’m alone in feeling that, but for years I’ve … Continue reading