Here lately it seems that everyone wants to connect to Oracle, but I have to admit this was the first time someone asked me to get PHP to talk to Oracle. It was a lot less painful then I thought it would be, so here is what I did. A long with the standard PHP…
Development
Quick Start To Using MongoDB with Python on Linux
With it’s rapid growth in popularity MongoDB is quickly becoming one of the top NoSQL Databases out there and with Python being one of the top ten programming languages according to Tiobe Software’s Programming Community Index. I’ve decided to write a quick how-to to show you just how easy it is to get started with…
Connecting Python to Oracle.
In the current world of heterogeneous networks it seems that you need to be able to connect to ever type of database system out there. In a recent project, I was asked, to take an existing MySQL and Python system and get it to connect to an existing Oracle Data Warehouse system. To be honest,…
Why You Should Looking at Python.
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python has also been one of the top 10 programming languages, since May of 2004 according toTiobe Software’s Programming Community Index. Python is being used by some big named companies such as Google, Yahoo,…
Slacking off
Well I haven’t really wrote anything in the last couple of months even though, I have had plenty to write about. I went to OSCON 2010 in July and had a great time. I learned more about MongoDB and picked up a few more bits of information on MySQL, Memcached, and Linux. In July I…
Building Thrift on RedHat/CentOS 5.x
What’s Thrift you ask? Well to quote their website. Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk, and OCaml. And why do I…
My First Post
So here’s the story; I’m horrible at grammar, spelling and pretty much anything else to do with the English language, but I decided to start a blog anyway. Foolish human.. 🙂 This will be a pretty boring blog to most of you since it will be a technical blog, with a few rants from yours…