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Based on my recent experimenting with CouchDB I have conflicted feelings of whether to get on, or stay off the couch. I am intrigued by the notion of a schema-free document-based database, and how applications could be created to leverage such a technology. I am also reserved about its benefits to my current work environment. [...]
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My experience with JavaScript has lead me to using Ajax frameworks and libraries such as Mootools, ExtJs, and now jQuery. The jQuery library has been around long enough to become stable, fast, and lightweight for dealing with those annoying problems all web application developers have to handle. The core competency of jQuery is it’s ability to [...]
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Recently I’ve been working on our in-house open source project, Tequila. It is a RESTful web service framework, and was lacking some familiar rendering capabilities out of the box. (See http://tequilaframework.org/ for project details). The formats that we thought may be useful were XML, JSON, and RDF, and so I set out to provide these [...]
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http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2008 My first Barcamp started the way most mornings do. Alarm goes off, roll out of bed and rub the eyes. Brew a pot of coffee and… you get the idea. This day saw me at the Granville Island market bright and early, 9.30am, okay so not so early, but it was a Saturday… Anyway, in [...]
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A project I’m working on was recently added to continuum to track build success. Unfortunately, we had to include the maven antrun plugin to handle two self-dependencies that the project has. I say unfortunate, because it made life hell to get the project to build when we changed version numbers. But, I have a solution. The [...]
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