Say we are building a robot. We just purchased a kit from Robots R Us, and find that there are 3 pegs upon which we are to affix some gears. Pretend that we have no common sense, or intuition about gears, so that all we have available to us is the math we learned in […]
This is just a quick article on basic refactoring, aimed at those who would benefit from an example. Often when I’m solving a problem, I break it apart into a bunch of little self contained units… often many small functions I can compose or otherwise make use of to solve the problem. There’s a case […]
In this project, I had to grandfather in the existing mySQL database. While it’s certainly do-able to use mySQL with Node.js/Meteor, the re-architecture elected use of MongoDB. There are of course many ways to move data between the two databases. Exporting from MySQL to a CSV file, and then importing that into MongoDB is one […]
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