Month: August 2010


Counting Frequencies of Frequencies

Lots of people forget about the usefulness of the core utilities (the tools available in Bash). I am even pretty guilty of it at times with such quick and easy things like Perl, Ruby, or Python that allow you to process items from the command line. However, they load up an entire interpreter. It is …

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Getting a Random Record From a MongoDB Collection

One of my issues with MongoDB is that, as of this writing, there is no way to retrieve a random record. In SQL, you can simply do something similar to “ORDER BY 1” (this varies depending on your flavor) and you can retrieve random records (at a slightly expensive query cost). There is not yet …

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