Those who know me technically know that I'm big into the TurboGears Python web development framework. Despite my affinity for al things TurboGearish, it's often useful to spend some time studying other frameworks to see the different design decisions they made, and to maybe just get ideas on how you can improve your own chosen framework. It was with that mindset that I sat down to read Grok 1.0 Web Development by Carlos de la Guardia.
MongoDB Applied Design Patterns
is available now, both in ebook and dead-tree form. In it, you'll see how to use MongoDB effectively in fields from real-time analytics to content management systems and more. The examples are all in Python, so readers of this blog should have no problem picking it all up.
I just released an 84-page ebook MongoDB with Python and Ming to help you get started. In it, I cover everything from installing MongoDB for the first time, basic pymongo usage, MongoDB aggregation including MapReduce and the new aggregation framework, and GridFS. You'll also learn about Ming, the object-document mapper we built at SourceForge to accelerate our development beyond what we could do with PyMongo.
I'm available for customized onsite Python and MongoDB training classes. You can sign up here for more information on this and other classes I'll be offering in the future including online and public training.
