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Fairly straight-forward. Just here for my own documentation /copy & pasting. Official MongoDB wiki contains the same info. Download binaries. Unzip and copy .exe’s to C:\mongo\bin Launch Command Prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR (right-click and run as administrator) Within c:\mongo\bin run “mongod –bind_ip 127.0.0.1 –logpath c:\mongo\logs –logappend –dbpath c:\mongo\data –directoryperdb –install” Go to Services and start / [...]
Jan 25
Configuring MongoDB on Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) as a Service
MongoDB | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 @ 10:26 PM
Jan 25
MongoDB and C#: "ReadString cannot be called when BsonType is: ObjectId"
MongoDB | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 @ 9:52 PM
{"ReadString cannot be called when BsonType is: ObjectId"} was the error I received a few times while learning MongoDB. I was getting this often until I saw a posting on Google Groups which reminded me that we need to be type conscious. I was setting the “_id” type to string. Realize that it needs to [...]
May 15
What Was Going On At EMC World 2010
Documentum | Saturday, May 15, 2010 @ 9:35 AM
This past week I was in Boston for EMC World 2010. I was surprised quickly at how much advertising EMC did to inform conference attendees, and the city of Boston, of the “Journey to the Private Cloud.” At baggage claim was an EMC ad. On my taxi to the Westin was an EMC ad. Needless [...]
May 14
One month with Rooted T-Mobile G1 – Lessons Learned
Android | Friday, May 14, 2010 @ 11:56 PM
I’ve been running a rooted G1 for a month now and there are some gotchas, glitches and lessons learned I wanted to share. Change From Rooted TMobile 1.6 to CyanogenMod 4.1.99 (based on Donut 1.6) After a few weeks of reading about Android and rooting, I came across CyanogenMod many times. I decided to switch [...]
May 04
Basic WordPress Performance and Caching
WordPress | Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 10:56 PM
Within the first week using WordPress I had over two dozen plugins and also noticed that the site took several seconds to load a page. I downloaded FireBug for Firefox and installed YSlow but was still getting low scores. (C/D grades and 65-72 in terms of scoring). I then realized that YSlow scores based on [...]
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