Recently I’ve been working on adding SignalR to a web application, and that means broadcasting records to clients after they’ve been updated. I could make different methods for each update type and react accordingly, but I’m pretty lazy so I decided to just make one “update” method that receives the entire record (and replaces it … [Read more…]
Recently I was looking at a MongoDB service and wondered if doing ReplaceOne was really the right call. My document was pretty simple – some identifying information that doesn’t change, and an array containing informational state that grows (never updates) as my program runs. I set up the documents to update to the database every … [Read more…]
MongoDB is a pretty cool document database that allows you to just toss data into a database without worrying too much about a schema. It’s not quite that easy, of course, because your code might be looking for specific properties, but its simpler than being stuck to a rigid schema. Lists and stuff Recently I … [Read more…]