Pieter Willem Jordaan

Building MongoDB C++ driver with Mingw64

Building MongoDB C++ driver with Mingw64

This post is a summary of the steps needed to build the MongoDB C++ driver with Mingw64.

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Dropped TCP packets on EC2 and Xen

Dropped TCP packets on EC2 and Xen

After months of debugging, testing, testing, and testing we’ve found the cause for TCP packets going missing from our EC2 instances: it is a Xen issue apparently. (more…)

Dropping a collection without losing the indexes

Dropping a collection without losing the indexes

Long story short, you can’t drop a MongoDB collection without losing the indexes. However, in this post I offer a shell helper that will save the indexes and build them again, so you won’t have to worry about it.

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Save The Date Wedding Card

Hello to everyone out there that reads this blog.

I am going to share our wedding save the date cards with you. The save the dates don’t have to be expensive and you can make your save the dates more special by doing it yourself. This is an easy project and the knot represents the knot you and your husband is going to tie.

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