"MongoDB and Python" is a cookbook-style text to help Python programmers work with MongoDB. It is full of useful, practical recipes for solving real-world problems ranging from how to do fast geo queries for location-based apps to efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups to how best to integrate MongoDB with the Pyramid Web framework.
Niall O'Higgins is a software consultant specialising in mobile, tablet and cloud computing. His accomplishments include designing and implementing the Catch.com platform backend using MongoDB, Python and Pylons. Catch is one of the most popular apps on Android. Prior to Catch he was a software engineer at Metaweb Technologies, where he worked on Freebase.com (now owned by Google). He is the founder and organizer of both the San Francisco Python Web Technology Meet-up, PyWebSF and the Bay Area Tablet Computing Group, We Have Tablets. He has published quite a bit of Open Source software - contributing to OpenBSD among others - and frequently speaks at conferences and events. You can find him on Twitter as @niallohiggins.
