Bootstrap a Neo4J instance on a new Ubuntu VM
(note to self) update: When releasing the 4.x branch this has been updated; docs are at https://debian.neo4j.com/ ; basically the .org is replaced by .com wget [...]
Bootstrapping the store-utils
While working on the crashed Neo4J database I needed to bootstrap the store-utils of Jexp fame to see what it would do with the crashed [...]
Crash by surprise ; recovery by hard work
Last Friday I needed to work on migrating an older Neo4J project into a new setup currently in development. As the old website needs to [...]
Just LOAD CSV it
For a recent project I just needed a list of countries for a user to be selected. https://github.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes/blob/master/all/all.csv Fills the need perfectly; now how to [...]
Graphing on the edge
Neo just released their 3.1 version; although I was using it for development already it's always good to update the production servers as soon [...]
Migrating data to the graph with APOC and JDBC
At a recent meetup here in Amsterdam the uber friendly Stefan Armbruster showed how to do fun stuf with the APOC. Although I did play [...]
Dealing with Neo4J 3.1 BETA gotcha’s
Inspired by yesterdays Graph meetup on the new features of Neo4J I decided to bite the bullet and switch our current development for the Historiana project [...]
Sleeping on the beach
When migrating data from legacy systems to Neo4J there are various ways to choose from. There is this high-speed specialised import tool /usr/bin/neo4j-import which offline prepares [...]
Adding magic by automation
Working on several projects at once can be a bit hectic at times. But it also creates the opportunity to stand back for a moment [...]
Timing Uniqueness
[aka: A case of investigating the possibilities of premature optimisation in a not-even-started project] In MySQL days getting an unique key was a matter of [...]