Articles tagged “flask”

1. Thursday June 21, 2018

   Flask-PyMongo, Back from the Dead

   homesteading.com

   Long ago, when I worked at MongoDB I created Flask-PyMongo to make it easy for programmers using Flask to use the database. Fast forward almost 8 years, during which time I wasn't a consistent user of either Flask or MongoDB, and Flask-PyMongo has fallen into disrepair.

   MongoDB, PyMongo, and Flask have moved on, and Flask-PyMongo hasn't been kept up to date. There are more than twice as many forks as pull requests, a GitHub ratio I'm not proud of. Fotunately, the future for Flask-PyMongo is bright.

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2. Wednesday January 4, 2012

   Time to Answer @PythonQuestions

   What's your new year's resolution? One of mine is to be more active in helping and mentoring new Pythonistas, which is why I wrote the twitter bot behind @PythonQuestions. Inspired by the @MongoQuestion twitter bot, @PythonQuestions tweets new Stack Overflow questions tagged "Python".

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3. 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.

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4. 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.

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