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”.

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.

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.