Welcome to the latest installment of “Five Words From …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, we follow along as Clara Parkes learns not just the process but also the vocabulary of turning fleece into yarn in Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool .
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As previously blogged , Wordnik is a heavy user of 10gen’s MongoDB . One year ago today we started the investigation to find an alternative to MySQL to store, find, and retrieve our corpus data. After months of experimentation in the non-relational landscape (and running a scary number of nightly builds), we settled…