Setting Up Multiple Instances of MongoDB on OSX

This post was originally published in February 2013 on my old blog. Some of this information may no longer work. I am posting this just as a reference for those curious as to how I did this originally back in 2013. For more up-to-date information, I would check the MongoDB site or Google. I ran into an interesting problem the other day. I was working on a problem that required MongoDB’s new...

Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim

I've wanted to learn Vim for a long time. But every time I tried to pick it up, I was overwhelmed with the endless possible keystrokes, perplexing modes, and odd navigation. I had been a Sublime Text 2 user for a long time (this is before 3). I ran through 'vimtutor' a couple of times, but even then, after I finished, I quickly forgot most of what I learned in the tutorial. I knew that my lack of...