Archives for September 2011

Tuesday September 27, 2011
Never Use Source Control GUIs!
Just received this IM from my friend, Nick:
```
11:48:58 AM Nick: kjsahfdlkjashdflkajshdflkjh
11:49:02 AM Nick: it was the git gui itself
11:49:09 AM Nick: it periodically refreshes
11:49:14 AM Nick: with a forked git process
```
Version control GUIs are uniformly evil. They entice you with a multitude of colors, and 1-pixel lines; their siren song is one-click commits and graphical 3-way merges.

But, like Odysseus, if we have any hope of prevailing, we must lash ourselves to the mast and steer past this temptation.

Thursday September 22, 2011
Professor, a MongoDB Profile Viewer

I presented Professor, my MongoDB profile viewer and analyzer, this past Tuesday at the New York MongoDB User Group. Professor aims to use the new features in the MongoDB 2.0 profiler to make profile information intelligible and actionable. It's open-source (BSD-licensed) and written in Python and Flask.

Tuesday September 20, 2011
The new Profiler in MongoDB 2.0

One of my favorite features in MongoDB 2.0 is the finer-grained output of the database profiler. In earlier versions, the bulk of the profile information was contained within a (structured, parseable) string, but as of 2.0 the fields have been broken out and made queryable.

Friday September 16, 2011
Hello, Plog

I've wanted to start writing a blog for the past few months. By which I mean, writing blog posts. But why focus on writing great content when you can write great software instead?

Allow me to introduce Plog, the software running late.am. Read on to see how Flask, Mongoengine, and MongoDB can work together to create something beautiful.