Nathaniel McCallum

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Dear 10gen,

Please merge my patches. I want to give MongoDB the best possible “out of the box” experience on Fedora and RHEL EPEL. I’ve taken my time to make sure that these patches were written in a way that preserves upstream behavior and compatibility, because I think upstream should have a great experience too. Since we support [...]

MongoDB 1.8 in Fedora

As MongoDB’s 1.8 release cycle is drawing to a close, I decided to update the Fedora 15 packages of MongoDB to the 1.7.x branch. The upgrade process from 1.6 to the 1.7.x/1.8.x series should be fairly straightforward. On non-replication/non-sharded setups it should be completely transparent: just upgrade the RPMs and restart; everything should work. For [...]

On the Out-of-Browser JavaScript Ecosystem

So as of late JavaScript is really starting to become an interesting language outside of the browser (OOB).  There are dozens of projects with a variety of separate goals.  Although I can name probably 20-30 such projects off the top of my head, the short list is probably around five or so, including probably the [...]