Rick Copeland

https://twitter.com/rick446

Python programmer, author, speaker

Areas of Expertise:

  • Python programming
  • web development
  • TurboGears
  • SQLAlchemy
  • compiler development
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Rick Copeland is a software engineer with GeekNet working on the SourceForge.net site, where he uses SQLAlchemy for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.

Essential SQLAlchemy Essential SQLAlchemy
by Rick Copeland
June 2008
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Rick blogs at:
http://blog.pythonisito.com/

Moving along with PyMongo

January 31 2012

In a previous post, I introduced MongoDB and its Python driver pymongo. Here, I continue in the same vein, describing in more detail how you can become productive using pymongo. Connecting to the Database In the last post, I gave a brief overview of how to connect to a database hosted on the MongoLab… read more

Getting Started with MongoDB and Python

January 18 2012

If you've been following this blog for a while, you've seen me mention MongoDB more than once. One exciting thing for me is that I'll be co-teaching a tutorial at PyCon this year on Python and MongoDB that will cover MongoDB, PyMongo, and Ming. So to hopefully whet your appetite for learning more… read more

MongoDB's Write Lock

December 31 2011

MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they discover such a primitive locking model. Now per-database and per-collection locking is on the roadmap for MongoDB, but it's not here yet. What was announced in… read more

MongoDB Rocks My World

October 31 2011

I am delighted to announce that I'll be speaking at several MongoDB-related events over the next couple of months. So if you're in or near Dallas, Seattle, or Silicon Valley, I'd love it if you could make it to one of my talks. 10gen (the makers of MongoDB) do a… read more
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