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I’ve been playing around with modelling a product taxonomy and one thing that I wanted to do was find out the full path where a product sits under the tree.

I created a simple data set to show the problem:

CREATE (cat { name: "Cat" })
CREATE (subcat1 { name: "SubCat1" })
CREATE (subcat2 { name: "SubCat2" })
CREATE (subsubcat1 { name: "SubSubCat1" })
CREATE (product1 { name: "Product1" })
CREATE (cat)-[:CHILD]-subcat1-[:CHILD]-subsubcat1
CREATE (product1)-[:HAS_CATEGORY]-(subsubcat1)

I wanted to write a query which would return ‘product1′ and the tree ‘Cat -> SubCat1 -> SubSubCat1′ and initially wrote…

I’ve written a couple of posts over the last few months about my experiences with A/B testing and one conversation we often used to have was around user experience vs conversion rate.

Once you start running an A/B test it encourages you to focus more on the conversion rate of users in different parts of the flow and your inclination is to make changes that increase that conversion rate.

Another one of our drivers is to provide the best user experience that we can to our customers and since sometimes this means that the best thing for…

Release Notes

• Official support for MiniTest v5. Fixes issue #156. Thanks to Ryan Davis.

In my time playing around with neo4j I’ve run into a problem a few times where I executed a query using the web console (usually accessible @ http://localhost:7474/webadmin/#/console/) and have got absolutely no response.

I noticed a similar thing today when Rickard and I were having a look at why a Lucene index query wasn’t behaving as we expected.

I setup some data in a neo4j database using neography with the following code:

require 'neography'
 
@neo = Neography::Rest.new
 
@neo.create_node_index("Id_Index", "exact", "lucene")

1. Are you using the Java driver for MongoDB in your application?
2. Are you using the Java driver directly, or are you using a third party library like Morphia, Spring Data, the Scala driver, your own abstraction layer, etc?
3. If you're using a third party library, why did you choose that over using the Java driver directly?
4. If…