About 6 weeks ago I left OpenSky to join 10gen. As you likely know, 10gen produces a popular open source NoSQL database called MongoDB. This has been a big week for 10gen. We’ve just made the headlines with two big stories: First we closed a new round of financing and second, we’ve release our 2.0 version of MongoDB. Both …
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About two years ago a friend introduced me to a different kind of database. It was one of the many new NoSQL solutions entering the marketplace. I spent about a month vetting it and all the other NoSQL databases and concluded that MongoDB would be the solution that would change the way development happened and …
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I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes sense, many of my posts are how tos and often for my own projects. Additionally now each project will have a legitimate project “homepage” for things like GitHub where that’s requested. So without further ado… …
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As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be better of walking from Grand Central to my office on 18th St. I save ~$5 a day not taking the subway and get all the extra benefit of walking the 1.5 miles. Link to this …
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Buying gifts for geeks is easy, you can’t go wrong with Star Wars (episodes 4-6), Star Trek, Battlestar Gallactica or Serenity. Buying a hacker a gift is a bit harder as they are usually quite a bit more discerning. I’ve compiled a list of the best gifts to get for the hacker in your life. …
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Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to use MongoDB in production for ecommerce. I shared why we went this route, and why it’s an obvious and powerful combination. At OpenSky we use MongoDB to develop the next ecommerce platform. OpenSky also uses Symfony 2, Doctrine 2, …
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I’ve been working in the technology industry for the last 16 years. I’ve learned a lot. I wanted to share the lessons I’ve learned over the past 16 years, I figured one for each year seemed nice. It’s harder to make a short list than a long one and I had to cut out some …
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As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup called OpenSky since February 2010. We’ve launched a new ecommerce platform and aim to reinvent ecommerce as people know it online. One of the big things we are doing is making it so anyone can sell OpenSky …
Read more »I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. I am leading the architecture, development and technology. It’s rare in life that one has the opportunity to do what they love to do and be paid to do it. Even rarer is to do something great with …
Read more »I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a project that I’ve been wanted to do for a while anyway, my own identity site, or my online business card, or my online vcard. The idea was inspired by Tim Van Damme’s website. Link to this post!
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