I was going insane working on a buddypress install for our intranet’s tech-blog because every page I attempted to load into WordPress following the Buddypress install resulted in a 404 error. Eventually,...

Today I was putzing around in the geo-spatial collection when I noticed that I had an unhappy over one of the column names within the collection. In the mySQL world, changing a column name is pretty...

Star Wars – The Old Republic (SWTOR) has pretty much dried-up my technical productivity since it’s release last week.  Staying true to my altoholic self, I’ve now got 6 teenage-level...

Why’s my mongodb query so slow? I got my geospatial collection set-up — I am running some really great queries making sure that the locations I am pulling aren’t in any sort of cache,...

I’ve recently finished a mongo collection that stores all auditing data from my application — specifically, it records every database transaction, conducted in either mySQL or mongo, assigning...

I’ve been working to build, and re-build, a geospatial table for work.  There’s been a lot of challenges in this project for me as this is the first time that I’ve had to architect db...

We’re updating a large dataset at work — there’s about an 18% increase in the number of tuples in the new dataset spread across a highly-normalized 8 or so tables. I have to port the...

First, let me begin by saying that I have been an Apple fan for a long time. In addition to using their computers, I was a first generation adopter of both the iPod and the iPhone.  I’ve gone through...

So I’ve been doing a lot of work, for work, in MongoDB lately and I’ve learned an awful lot.  Or, depending on your point of view, a lot that’s just awful. See, there’s not what...

Introduction [EDIT] – This is a re-hash of a document I wrote a couple years ago.  There’s been changes to the nuSOAP library and I wanted to document the updates relative to the tutorial...

Oh, Apple.  What did you do now? It’s one thing to introduce broken (or bent) functionality in an upgrade release.  It’s quite another to break (or bend) existing functionality in the same...

In my previous post, I wrote about getting gpass (a password manager for the gnome desktop) compiled from source and running on our CentOS 6 platform.  The screenie I took of the welcome screen was...