Comments for LightCube Solutions Blog http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog Hints, experiences and insights from LightCube Solutions Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on The Medicine of a Document Database by owen http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=350&cpage=1#comment-743 owen Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:11:55 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=350#comment-743 I'm been telling people for years that normalization is bull but nobody believed me. it really don't matter how you store the information as long as you can get it back quickly and in order. Flexibility is key is some causes and not so key in others. I would store the schema in a RDBMS and the data in Mongo. I’m been telling people for years that normalization is bull but nobody believed me. it really don’t matter how you store the information as long as you can get it back quickly and in order. Flexibility is key is some causes and not so key in others. I would store the schema in a RDBMS and the data in Mongo.

]]> Comment on The Medicine of a Document Database by Justin Dearing http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=350&cpage=1#comment-626 Justin Dearing Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:53:13 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=350#comment-626 The biggest counter to your argument is that join speed is slow when your storage is a filing cabinet, and your query engine is a medical secretary. So the counter argument is computer make it possible to use the relational model instead of the document database model. That being said, the analogy is solid. I know a programmer that wrote a medical database in Postgres, and discusses many interesting solutions to interesting problems he had. If I were to design one and had to chose between a RDBMS and Mongo I'd probably think long and hard about which to use. The biggest counter to your argument is that join speed is slow when your storage is a filing cabinet, and your query engine is a medical secretary. So the counter argument is computer make it possible to use the relational model instead of the document database model. That being said, the analogy is solid.

I know a programmer that wrote a medical database in Postgres, and discusses many interesting solutions to interesting problems he had. If I were to design one and had to chose between a RDBMS and Mongo I’d probably think long and hard about which to use.

]]> Comment on Clonezilla HOWTO: Quick and Dirty Setup by Clonezilla HOWTO: Quick and Dirty Setup | osscc http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-610 Clonezilla HOWTO: Quick and Dirty Setup | osscc Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:41:51 +0000 http://lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=33#comment-610 [...] Then, boot up your client machines using PXE. See, that wasn’t too painful… Source : http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=33 [...] [...] Then, boot up your client machines using PXE. See, that wasn’t too painful… Source : http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=33 [...]

]]> Comment on Clonezilla by Clonezilla HOWTO: Quick and Dirty Setup | osscc http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=6&cpage=1#comment-607 Clonezilla HOWTO: Quick and Dirty Setup | osscc Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:07:41 +0000 http://lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=6#comment-607 [...] you have any question, do not hasitate to post it on our comment form. Since I wrote the post ‘Clonezilla‘ in January, our blog has been getting a lot of hits, apparently from people looking for advice [...] [...] you have any question, do not hasitate to post it on our comment form. Since I wrote the post ‘Clonezilla‘ in January, our blog has been getting a lot of hits, apparently from people looking for advice [...]

]]> Comment on No more IE6, please by ter Smitten's » No more IE6, please http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68&cpage=1#comment-604 ter Smitten's » No more IE6, please Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:10:15 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68#comment-604 [...] http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68 [...] [...] http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68 [...]

]]> Comment on MongoSF and Beyond by jstephens http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=291&cpage=1#comment-567 jstephens Tue, 11 May 2010 23:33:22 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=291#comment-567 Don't feel bad. I feel like I'm the only Perl programmer that tries to use the code. I have a WIP fork of the Perl driver that strips out the excessive Moose framework since we don't have time for frameworks here. So having to load 54 libraries to make a socket connection isn't an option. Hopefully I'll have time to get back to this soon so I can submit my branch for approval. Don’t feel bad. I feel like I’m the only Perl programmer that tries to use the code. I have a WIP fork of the Perl driver that strips out the excessive Moose framework since we don’t have time for frameworks here. So having to load 54 libraries to make a socket connection isn’t an option. Hopefully I’ll have time to get back to this soon so I can submit my branch for approval.

]]> Comment on MongoSF and Beyond by Spacemonkey http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=291&cpage=1#comment-509 Spacemonkey Mon, 03 May 2010 15:48:49 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=291#comment-509 Couple reasons actually: 1) IIRC MongoDB support was provided for C, Java first, then Python and Ruby, and THEN PHP. 2) PHP still is dominated by developers that are writing procedural code, which doesn't scream for rich data like the pure object languages do. That was a great talk, and going to do my part to make sure in NYC you get a full room :-) Couple reasons actually:

1) IIRC MongoDB support was provided for C, Java first, then Python and Ruby, and THEN PHP.
2) PHP still is dominated by developers that are writing procedural code, which doesn’t scream for rich data like the pure object languages do.

That was a great talk, and going to do my part to make sure in NYC you get a full room :-)

]]> Comment on MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS by 15 essential PHP and MySQL tutorials! http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=209&cpage=1#comment-339 15 essential PHP and MySQL tutorials! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:10:31 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=209#comment-339 [...] MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS About 2 months ago we (LightCube Solutions) decided to install and mess around with MongoDB. We went from messing around to serious adoption about 2 weeks ago when we realized the power of working with it and PHP. It was Mitch Pirtle that first pointed us in this direction. Mitch was very enthusiastic about Mongo as he explained the great potential. Yet, it was only until I added an array of data from PHP into Mongo that my eyes started to open up. [...] [...] MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS About 2 months ago we (LightCube Solutions) decided to install and mess around with MongoDB. We went from messing around to serious adoption about 2 weeks ago when we realized the power of working with it and PHP. It was Mitch Pirtle that first pointed us in this direction. Mitch was very enthusiastic about Mongo as he explained the great potential. Yet, it was only until I added an array of data from PHP into Mongo that my eyes started to open up. [...]

]]> Comment on No more IE6, please by JH http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68&cpage=1#comment-331 JH Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:18:41 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=68#comment-331 There was an interesting article posted on CNN's site today that is related to this topic: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2 There was an interesting article posted on CNN’s site today that is related to this topic: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2

]]> Comment on MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS by abcphp.com http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=209&cpage=1#comment-312 abcphp.com Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:56:57 +0000 http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=209#comment-312 <strong>MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS « LightCube Solutions Blog...</strong> I’ve been tweeting quite a bit about MongoDB over the past few weeks and its time to blog. About 2 months ago we decided to install and mess around with MongoDB. We went from messing around to serious adoption about 2 weeks ago when we realized the pow... MongoDB and PHP – A Quick Look at GridFS « LightCube Solutions Blog…

I’ve been tweeting quite a bit about MongoDB over the past few weeks and its time to blog. About 2 months ago we decided to install and mess around with MongoDB. We went from messing around to serious adoption about 2 weeks ago when we realized the pow…

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