Posts By: kgorman

320BonesyBoostrapped WordPressification

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The folks at 320press released their wp-bootstrap v2.0 theme a while back. WP-bootstrap is based on the bones framework and implements my personal favorite boostrap framework into WordPress. Thats a pretty hefty stack of technologies. That said, it’s impact is substantial. I have been using WordPress for this blog since May of 2006 and finally… Read more »

MongoDB Austin

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I am very excited to present at the MongoDBAustin conference on February 15th 2013 in Austin TX! I am giving a completely new presentation; “MongoDB Performance; Profiler Deep Dive”. The purpose of this discussion is to give a more complete and thorough explanation of the wonderful MongoDB profiler. In previous presentations I have received wonderful… Read more »

ObjectRocket Launches

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Wow, today is awesome. It’s been a bunch of months since myself and the other ObjectRocket Founders started ObjectRocket. We have been tirelessly building something that we are very proud of. Today we officially released it to the world. I have to admit it’s nerve racking, but also very exciting. We felt early on that… Read more »

QConSF, save $100, donate some food!

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I am super excited to be presenting MongoDB large-scale data centric architectures at QCon, Friday Nov 9th in the NoSQL Emergence track. My talk will focus on the realities of running the MongoDB database at scale, what challenges it presents, where it works great, and where it doesn’t. This is stuff anyone who wants to… Read more »

MongoSeattle Recap

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MongoSeattle was fantastic, I think my favorite MongoDB conference to-date. Great attendance and great interest in both MongoDB and ObjectRocket. I really enjoyed meeting some really interesting and smart folks, all looking to make the most of MongoDB and some with some particularly tricky problems. Lots of folks are interested in the new MongoDB 2.2… Read more »

Charity: Homes for our Troops

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Today I joined the program to donate monthly to Homes for our Troops. These guys really help our folks who need it the most and deserve our help and gratitude. I decided it was time I show some and will be donating monthly to help our Vetrans and their families in need. Join me!