mike dirolf

Hackabit and be bit.ly

15 July 2010

Last night the folks at bit.ly hosted a hackathon, called hackabit, to celebrate their 2nd anniversary. I worked on a quick little game called “be bit.ly”.

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PyMongo 1.7 Released

17 June 2010

A new release for PyMongo has been long overdue – the last release (1.6) was made on May 11th, over two months ago! It’s been a busy couple of months with travel and writing (and life), so a release hasn’t been on the top of the list. I finally made the effort to get a release out today, though, and the result is PyMongo 1.7. For a full list of changes, check the changelog; in this post I’ll talk about a few of them in detail.

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Videos from MongoNYC

02 June 2010

MongoNYC happened in the end of May and was one of my favorite conferences of the past year. All of the talks I went to were very good, and I also had a chance to meet and talk with a ton of interesting people. The videos from the conference were just posted – I’ve embedded the videos of my talks and linked to a couple others I thought were great.

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I’m a software engineer working at 10gen on MongoDB. I try to play as much soccer as possible and am also always up for riding (or building) longboards. Born and raised in Albany, I’m now living in New York.

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latest talks

(v) 07 Jun 2010 Europe Virtual ALT.NET
(s) 02 Jun 2010 Open Source Bridge
(s) 27 May 2010 Gluecon
(v) 21 May 2010 MongoNYC (2)
(v) 21 May 2010 MongoNYC (1)
(s) 18 May 2010 NY Cloud Computing Group
(s) 12 May 2010 NYC NoSQL
(s) 07 May 2010 FrozenRails
(v) 30 Apr 2010 MongoSF (2)
(v) 30 Apr 2010 MongoSF (1)
(s) 09 Apr 2010 Philly ETE
(a) 05 Apr 2010 Techzing
(s) 08 Mar 2010 10gen Webinar
(s) 21 Feb 2010 PyCon Poster Session
(v) 02 Feb 2010 DC Python / ZPUG DC
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