Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• nano-repository 1.0.0 – makes using CouchDB via Nano even easier
• broccoli-couchdb-versioning 0.1.1 – define couchdb design documents on the file system, and automatically push them to couchdb when they change
• boxspring 0.0.20 – a collection of Backbone Model classes for interacting with CouchDB compatible with Browser and Server-side execution
• express-pouchdb 0.8.1 – express submodule with a CouchDB style REST interface to PouchDB
• cradle 0.6.9 – the high-level, caching, CouchDB library
• couchbeam 1.1.5 – a CouchDB client library for Erlang applications
• npm have relaunched their website

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• CouchDB Setup on Linux and basic commands (Video Tutorial)
• How To Install CouchDB and Futon on Ubuntu 12.04
• How to build web applications that can work offline with PouchDB?
• The Offline Cookbook

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to combine multiple CouchDB queries into a single request?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB with PHP (using cURL), but how?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB (Cloudant) – get unique results for a “starts with” search on multiple fields
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB won’t delete existing database
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB installation not working on Mac OSX
• Stack Overflow: Exports functions globally in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Exports functions globally in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Cloudant: How to create an index for “Sort” function?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB _security PUT with angularJS

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: Getting document from many-to-many relationship in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB View For JSON Array

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to have you on board!

Events

• December 11, Berlin, Germany: CouchDB Hack Night Berlin
• December 12, Vienna, Austria: ViennaDB Xmas Gathering
• February 7, 2015: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale is now open

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Full Stack Software Engineer, Kraków, Poland
• C# .NET Backend Developer – Data Analytics, London, UK

Time to relax!

• “The idea that the software industry benefits from an unwritten law of unconditional and mutual respect is an extension of meritocratic thinking: it’s as unrealistic as the meritocracy itself.” – Codes of Conduct: when being excellent is not enough
• “The world is not acting in our long-term benefit. Imagine you walk down the street and every store is trying to get your money right now; in your pocket you have a phone and every app wants to control your attention right now. Most of the entities in our lives really want us to make mistakes in their favor. So the world is making things very, very difficult.” – How to be efficient

… and also in the news

• My Career is not about stopping Gamergate
• How to use npm as a build tool
• “i think i finally understood couchdb view collation. it simply rocks – down to 1 request from 3 per query” (@zemirco, on Twitter)