After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better.  The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012.   This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture.

I am new to MongoDB but this book has been helpful in evaluating and learning about how to scale with it. At work we’ve been thinking about using it for some projects but it was important to investigate and review it in more detail before we jumped into it and added it to our stack. Overall, it’s a great book on Mongo scaling, succinct and complete. It doesn’t elaborate on every possible scaling topic, but it’s enough detail to make important architectural decisions. Mongo is a great new technology, and this book is a good companion. For more info on using mongo in general, check out “MongoDB: The Definitive Guide.”

I was looking at various ways to create a lookbook or flip book online and ran across some different solutions including page-flip.com, flashpageflip.com, andfreshcatalog.com</a. After doing some more searching, even looking at Drupal integration, I ran across a very cool service available online. It’s called Issuu.

A few days ago an apple employee gets drunk and forgets his phone at the bar. It’s not just any phone though, it’s the next generation iPhone not to be out for months.  Given how secretive Apple is, I’m sure this person is in a world of hurt right now.  I was kind of surprised when I saw the story on Gizmodo a few days ago, but was even more surprised when I saw it in the NY Times this morning.  Someone is going to be getting a serious spanking from Steve Jobs.

As google seeks to dominate all things digital, it gets one step closer.  This time with language translation.  It’s actually quite impressive to see the results.  I read this article from the NY Times and was pleasantly surprised.