Interactive fiction
Great! Finally found a decent IF interpreter for android: text fiction Now playing Anchorhead on my tablet. Really liking the SMS style interface, and it works really well with the android slidy keybo…
March 2014
Mobile development on Android and iOS
I've been doing a spot of iOS and android development for some sample apps today, which I've not done for a while. TL/DR: Yuck, ObjectiveC is a horrible blast from the past. Yuck, Java is a horrible b…
MongoDb optimisation for scale
I redesigned the schema for one of our MongoDb clusters today. In doing so, I managed to reduce request times by 1.5 orders of magnitude! We're now sustaining request times of roughly 30ms. The first…
PHP MongoDb replicaset gotcha
Ran into a gotcha with PHP+MongoDb the other day. Now, PHP ain't my favourite language, but its what Piwik is written in so I'm stuck with it for that. I've partially ported Piwik to use mongodb (vs m…