Programming

Introduction to MongoDB

November 29, 2011

If you’re like me, you’ve been working in the web industry for many years now, primarily using the tried-and-true relational database management systems (RDMS) such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. These databases are well-known, well-supported, and generally considered “the right way” to do things—even if they’re not. In the past few years an alternative database philosophy [...]

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Getting MySQL-Python working in OS X Lion

August 7, 2011

I was trying to setup a Django development environment on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion and I ran into an issue with MySQL-Python. The module couldn’t be imported and gave me an “image not found” error. After digging around a while on Google I came across this article, which gives a very simple [...]

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