In my current project, I'm displaying a country's corruption trend from from Transparency International alongside Kiva loans. Since both of these data sets have different refresh intervals and sources, I do a mongoImport to get them into the database. Example records: The data is pretty clean at the get-go with a logical join on the location.country... Continue Reading →
After the research for my last post, I've gotten a bit more curious into micro-loan services like Kiva. I have been a Kiva member for over 10 years now, and love reading the stories of the folks I'm helping. Kiva is also more transparent than the non-profits I've donated to. I can set how much... Continue Reading →
Over the last week, I've received snail mail solicitations from 5 charity organizations. This is about typical. I have given to some of these in the past, so I've been on their list. In looking at the 5, I can recall a specific point in which I felt compelled to donate. MD Anderson Cancer Center... Continue Reading →
In part-one I started a journey on implementing and setting up an initial database using MongoDB. At the end of that post, I had a single collection, called "projects" with a defined schema and about 1000 records populated in it. In this post, I will explore how query many tables/collections, how to update data, and... Continue Reading →
In my free time, I'm exploring the MEAN stack. My previous employer had a few teams running Node.JS & MongoDB and the resulting products and team-velocity looked slick! I'm following "Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js" by Jason Krol. Getting Started with MongoDB For this play-instance, I'm using a t2.micro Ubuntu instance (free-tier eligible) on... Continue Reading →
In my free time, I'm exploring the MEAN stack. My previous employer had a few teams running Node.JS & MongoDB and the resulting products and team-velocity looked slick! I'm following "Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js" by Jason Krol. Getting Started with MongoDB For this play-instance, I'm using a t2.micro Ubuntu instance (free-tier eligible) on... Continue Reading →
In large businesses, it isn't unusual to have different approaches to software delivery. The finance organization may choose to outsource development and prefer a detailed statement of work at the beginning of the project. They would choose the waterfall methodology leading to a higher confidence in delivery timelines. Their projects may last months, but the... Continue Reading →
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