October 2012

• 5 Pro MongoDB Data Modeling Tips

  We recently challenged ourselves by choosing mongodb for a client project.  After a lot of prototypes, tests, wrong approaches, right approaches, lively discussions, and theorizing about the role of NoSQL databases, we decided to move on and face – with responsibility – the challenge. From this amazing experience we developed 5 pro tips that kept […]

  Published by Marcio Garcia
  Posted: 2012-10-31
  Filed under: Technology
  

• Measuring Amazon AWS Uptime

  Yesterday, for the second time in two years Techblog was offline most of the day due to an Amazon AWS service outage. That’s effectively, for business purposes, 364/365 = 99.726% uptime. 99.726 percent uptime isn’t a statistic we hear about (returns zero results on Google) because cloud hosting providers shine up the numbers the same way […]

  Published by John Mayo-Smith
  Posted: 2012-10-23
  Filed under: Cloud, Industry, Technology
  

• AMD – CommonsJS Modules for the Browser

  The Asynchronous Module Definition API (AMD) brings modular JavaScript to the browser similar to the CommonsJS Modules API. The difference with CommonsJS modules is that AMD enables modules to be loaded asynchronously on demand, reducing browser footprint. As with CommonsJS modules, AMD modules do not add variables to the global namespace, helping to avoid clashes between […]

  Published by Patrick Van Kann
  Posted: 2012-10-18
  Filed under: Technology
  

• An Insider’s Account of Nerdy Derby at MakerFaire 2012

  At the 2012 World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, makers of all walks once again converged to share their passion, see interesting and/or odd projects and to participate in this burgeoning movement. One of the exhibits which captured all of these aspects was the Nerdy Derby. Nerdy Derby is […]

  Published by Robert Carlsen
  Posted: 2012-10-03
  Filed under: Technology