When you’re starting off, it’s fairly easy to commit to the master branch. But once your application is released, you probably want to keep things stable on the master branch. So use feature branches.

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I’ve moved from MacPorts to Homebrew which includes a recipe for installing MongoDB. After installing Homebrew, just run this as your normal user:

If you prefer to store your MongoDB data all under your home directory, you might find Mislav’s gist suits your needs instead:

http://gist.github.com/265272

If you prefer installing from source, check out this post:

http://shiftcommathree.com/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-on-os-x

Enjoy.

Here at Katipo, we’re using New Relic RPM to monitor our deployed Kete applications, to help make things as fast as possible. In order to make New Relic as useful as possible, I’ve been trying out three New Relic RPM features, some available in only the latest versions of RPM, on one of those sites. These recent and little-known features aren’t enabled by default, so I’m going to run you through them and how to set them up in this post.

If you don’t yet use New Relic RPM, you can get a Lite account for free by going to newrelic.com, where you can also test drive New Relic RPM on a real application. (more…)