jchanimal

What #NoSQL means to me: No SQL in HTML5

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:16:40 -0500

What #NoSQL means to me: No SQL in HTML5:

A popular question these days has been “What does NoSQL mean?”

Some say it means “Not only SQL” or something. But to me it means something different.

In my CouchDB talk at the…

How CouchDB Treats the Disks

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:10 -0500

How CouchDB Treats the Disks:

Blogs are pretty much append-only. Most of the time you add new posts, sometimes you edit recent ones. There are new comments.

CouchDB’s file format is also append-only. This doesn’t make it…

HTML5 Web Workers

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:50:41 -0500

HTML5 Web Workers:

Web Workers open up the web client to message-passing-style programming. Getting this into HTML5 is the first step toward taking Erlang’s robust parallelism to the web.

People keep asking me what…

CouchDB Google Tech Talk

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:07:43 -0400

CouchDB Google Tech Talk:

Thanks to Steve Souders I had the opportunity to speak about CouchDB at Google. here are links to the video and slides.

CouchDB - Local Web Platform

Deep Couch: Deterministic Revs for Idempotent PUTs

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:05:58 -0400

Deep Couch: Deterministic Revs for Idempotent PUTs:

Idempotent

HTTP traffic (really, many kinds of traffic, as this happens at the TCP level) is sometimes repeated by intermediaries with no knowledge of either the client or the server. This is why…

TFM Part 2: A metaphor

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:53:47 -0400

TFM Part 2: A metaphor:

In my last post I pretty much let loose with the frustration of having more to do than one possibly can. I think it comes from overbooking myself and then getting hit with the house fire that…

TFM

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:01:46 -0400

TFM:

Time fucking management, this is something I’ve been learning my whole life, and I concede it’s like trying to hold back the ocean.

First of all, TFM’s non-linear: 45 minutes at the Github drinkup…

"So let me get this straight: liberals protest war; conservatives protest health care. Ok. Just..."

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:26:53 -0400

“So let me get this straight: liberals protest war; conservatives protest health care. Ok. Just wanted to be clear.”

- Cynical-C (via huslage)

Book progress

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:35:01 -0400

Book progress:

Jan, Noah and I are getting close to the finish line on our book, CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. Friday is a real deadline. We are in a sprint to apply all the latest API changes and suchlike to…

p2p Web @ OSCON

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:32:09 -0400

p2p Web @ OSCON:

CouchDB’s web API and offline replication capabilities make it ideally suited to power a sea-change in the relationships between users and service providers. I’ll talk about the benefits and…

Fixing HTML 5 Storage

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:12:40 -0400

Fixing HTML 5 Storage:

The NoSQL movement has raised a flag about possible inclusion of SQL in the HTML 5 standard. Many of these people are fans of simpler key/value APIs. I’m guilty of getting up on stage with a…

Kings of Code slides

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:55:31 -0400

Kings of Code slides:

This talk has a bit more attitude than some of my others. I’m not sure if it was recorded, but that’s cool: “you had to be there.”

My favorite bits were getting to tell Steven Pemperton that “in…

The P2P Web (part one)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:38:06 -0400

The P2P Web (part one):

(Part one because this is only just some of what I’d like to say on the topic.)

The web was originally designed as a peer-to-peer medium. Tim Berners-Lee needed a way to share physics papers with…

NoSQL Slides

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:16:50 -0400

NoSQL Slides:

NoSQL was a rip-roaring good time. It was fun to catch up with old friends as well as get an all day brain-dump of what’s going on in the distributed database world. I’m pretty heads-down on…

Less

Sat, 30 May 2009 23:52:00 -0400

Less:

I like it when people talk about less code. Code slower, all of that. Here’s my attempt to talk about less.

Less Layers

This is one aspect people find appealing about pure Couch apps. Less layers…

First Principles

Fri, 29 May 2009 02:31:26 -0400

First Principles:

I’m not particularly concerned with people who take issue with some of the CouchDB demos I’ve been doing lately. Either they don’t get it or they’re trying hard not too. If you’re on the cusp, and…

Simple Wins

Mon, 25 May 2009 03:01:21 -0400

Simple Wins:

The biggest response I got to Toast, my realtime CouchDB chat server was: “wtf why didn’t you use XYZ technology?”

The point of developing chat in CouchDB is not to show how CouchDB is an ideal…

"ThatGirlOnline: Where is my Seb? I need him!"

Sun, 24 May 2009 02:18:52 -0400

“ThatGirlOnline: Where is my Seb? I need him!”

- ThatGirlOnline : on toast

My Couch is on Port 80

Sat, 23 May 2009 16:58:09 -0400

My Couch is on Port 80:

It started with the tshirt:

Now it’s turned into a (realtime chat) movement.

Toast is a simple demo chat application for CouchDB. It can still have a lot added to it, but it can IM, and…

Building things

Sat, 23 May 2009 14:58:03 -0400

Building things:

I had a wild weekend meeting VCs in SF, and came home determined to actually write some code. Meetings are fun but they remind you that nothing talks like code.

So I’m putting together a demo…