As a follow-on to my recent post about the upcoming features in MongoDB Version 3.2, I wanted to mention a specific feature that hasn't made headlines, but is nonetheless quite interesting to developers: Bitwise…
Once you start using Git for version control you never want to go back to the old centralized version control model of tools like TFS. But what if you are stuck with TFS for some…
I just came across a new (to me) developer/DBA tool for MongoDB called MongoChef. And I'm finding that the Chef is quite talented. Query Builder The visual Query Builder is what people new to…
At their recent annual conference, MongoDB World 2015, MongoDB announced a number of interesting new features slated for Version 3.2 of MongoDB. Here's a summary of the new features mentioned in the announcement: Support…
There's an interesting little project out there in beta now called DuoCode that is basically a transpiler (though they wrongly dub it a cross-compiler) from C# to JavaScript. It provides a projection of the browser…
The 2015 BUILD conference is buzzing with talk about Microsoft's new lightweight editor dubbed "Visual Studio Code" (VSCode). As Scott Hanselman reports, Microsoft took a page from GitHub's open source Atom editor, which uses a…
The Ghost blogging platform upon which this little blog 'o mine is built turned 2 years old today. Ghost was born as a Kickstarter project that garnered $300,000 of funding. Like OneNote for the…
MongoDB certainly has its haters. Some have better reasons for hating MongoDB than others. I believe that many "Mongo Haters" simply don't understand that MongoDB is not the tool for every job. Relational data is…
As of version 3.0, MongoDB now supports several different storage engines. One of the engines available is an experimental "In Memory" engine. Storage Engines MongoDB automatically loads frequently-accessed data into memory using the default…
Getting started with MongoDB on Windows is very easy. To install MongoDB on your workstation, just follow these three simple steps: 1. Run the MongoDB MSI installer For Windows 7, you want the version named…