Its been a while since I felt like I actually contributed to the dev community. Last night I came to this old site and wondered who this guy was. He had neat things to say. Now? I spend my time coding, putting things together and generally trying to get things done. Do I succeed at
My first thoughts on Node as a *real* beginner. First Take. I picked up Nodej about 3 years ago when the name sounded cool in the halls of Yahoo. I didnt think much of it and just thought it was the next buzz word. From a PHP developer’s stand point and mostly the standpoint of
Update. Family I’m dating my High School best friend. After hanging out for a while we decided, hey why not? And well, though it’s still early in the relationship I feel this is a great match. We’re also purchasing a home and hopefully it will close sometime soon, hopefully before years end but I’m not
Let’s get right into it. This is going to be a small tutorial on how to shard your data using MongoDB. So grab that cup of coffee, turn on some tunes, and let’s get cranking away. I’m going to assume a few things: 1. You know why sharding is good for managing large amounts of
Be it the yelling outside that woke me or just a feeling. I’m awake. At 3am. :-|. I dislike living in downtown, duh moment right? As you can tell this is going to be yet another freewrite. Moving on… I decided to FINALLY finish my Masters. Yes everyone, school is back at my top priority
Be it the yelling outside that woke me or just a feeling. I’m awake. At 3am. :-|. I dislike living in downtown, duh moment right? As you can tell this is going to be yet another freewrite. Coming up in my career I had different experiences. Once of which was knowing when to leave a
Lately I’ve been fortunate to conduct an array of load tests using very large numbers and I believe I’ve stumbled upon something interesting within the Load/Performance testing community. Or rather something I might not understand yet…that’s also possible. A standardized way to load test. Let’s take an example. If I want to load test (not
I guess I just need to start. This is going to be a free write and wont be about anything technical or anything specific at all. You’ve been warned 🙂 I’m not sure what you think about when you run but when I run I look down a lot. The majority of the times I
I headed off to Seattle the previous weekend and had some time to think about where my life was heading, what factors lead me to this point, and the different points of views about a variety of subjects. I would like to think of myself as a natural thinker. I think and reason my problems
Yep, it’s been a great while since I’ve managed to get online and update the site. Today felt about right to finally update the site again. Looking at the traffic to the site, its about where I want it now. I really wanted this site just to rant and vent, it sorta became something else,
