Drupal + CouchDB

Earlier today, Tim Milwood authored a post detailing the work he’s done with Drupal and CouchDB to expose the compatible endpoints with the PHP-based CMS.

Releases

grunt-couchdb 0.1.0 (Node) – The best Grunt plugin ever.

Major Discussions

make (see thread)

Jan Lehnardt is proposing shipping CouchDB 2.0 sooner than later and adding integration with all the different operating systems as needed in order to create an intermediate solution allowing to ship 2.0 sooner.

db/_all_conflicts (see thread)

Robert Kowalski and co have a hackweek to work on creating a list of conflicts in Fauxton for every database (provided by CouchDB) to give users better abilities to handle conflict resolution.

Calculating Revision IDs outside erlang… (see thread)

In this discussion Michael Fair recommends changing the term_to_binary computation to use the {minor_version, 1} option in the rev_id calculation, to assist with replicating the md5 for the revision id of documents with floats – which currently is causing a headache.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• chill-rs/chill 0.1.0 (Rust) – Chill is a client-side CouchDB library for the Rust programming language
• couchdb-iterator 2.0.1 (Node) – A fast and easy to ease CouchDB iterator for views and all documents
• couchdb-jwt 3.3.1 (Node) – A Node.js server for managing CouchDB authentication through JSON Web Tokens.
• couch-node 0.0.3 (Node) – Couchdb promise request
• sneakerjs 0.3.0 (Node) – Entity relationship automation for AngularJS and CouchDB/PouchDB

PouchDB

• express-jwt-pouchdb 1.1.0 (Node) – Express-PouchDB with JSON Web Token Support.
• pouch-inspector 0.1.0 (Node) – Inspects a PouchDB database
• pouchdb-security-helper 1.1.0 (Node) – CouchDB _security document helpers for PouchDB.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [VIDEO] CouchDB Design Documents, David King
• [POST] Introducing spark-cloudant, an open source Spark connector for Cloudant data, Mike Breslin

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• PouchDB has now passed 5000 issues!
• [POST] Offline First with Ionic 2, PouchDB and IBM Bluemix, Richard Shergold

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• CouchDB dev/run for TLS for erlang distribution (RSA or ECC), Robert Newson
• AvanceDB: An in-memory database implementing a large subset of the CouchDB REST API. AvanceDB has blistering fast document lookup and map/reduce performance. If you are currently using CouchDB and struggle with view build times then AvanceDB should be a seamless replacement for your view workload.

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB Finnish/Swedish collation view
• Why is the CouchDB documentation suggesting docs should not be emitted in the view?
• CouchDB null value when sort descending
• Read many Json Documents and Union in only One (BigData?)
• Observer Pattern Between Python and CouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Cannot find solutions to “No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header” with CouchDB
• CouchDB on Ubuntu VM in Azure does not start

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

no public answer on Stack Overflow yet:

• I need the value outside the function of PouchDB, but i can’t use it 
• Is Ionic + PouchDB + SQLite + Firebase a good combination for offline/online mobile app?
• AngularJS PouchDB change-listener
• PouchDB 5.3.0 – Error: Database location or iosDatabaseLocation value is now mandatory in openDatabase call

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

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!
• Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
• The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
• CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
• 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 welcome you on board!

Events

• TONIGHT – March 31, Boston (MA), US: New England Software Engineers – “Offline First” Night
• April 6, Gachibowli, Hyderabad: Hyderabad Scalability Meetup – “Offline First Applications – with usecases”
• April 12, Reno (NV), US: Reno.js – “Syncing with PouchDB”

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Big Data Integration Developer, Tampa (FL), US
• DevOps Engineer, Novi (MI), US
• Enterprise Reporting Cloud Software Developer, Los Angeles (CA), US
• Principal Software Engineer, Annapolis Junction (MD), US
• Java Software Engineer, Denver (CO), US
• Senior Java Software Engineer, Denver (CO), US
• Software Designer III, Washington, DC, US
• Scala/Java Backend Developer, Munich, Germany
• Senior Software Engineer – PHP, Westwood (KS), US
• Senior Data Engineer, Portland (OR), US
• Product Engineer, Chicago (IL), US

Time to relax!

• “Watching old Soviet military parades may not seem like the best use of your time, and to be honest, it probably isn’t. But there’s something weirdly transfixing about them. It’s really easy to get drawn in by the pomp and circumstance, to get hypnotized by the bugles and drums and rhythmic marching.” – Relax with hours and hours of Soviet military parades
• “…making time for stress release is more important than you might think. According to the Mayo Clinic, the more regularly we feel stressed, the harder it is for our bodies to return to our normal ‘non-stressed’ state, meaning that our bodies can become full of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol even in low stress situations. This flood of hormones can lead to high blood pressure, sleep problems, heart issues, and even certain forms of cancers.” – The 9 Best Relaxation Videos on YouTube
• “I find even pubs to be overwhelming, so nightclubs are just awful with all the noise, sound and crowded people. It’s much easier and more comfortable for me to talk to my friends on Skype or Facebook than to force myself into an uncomfortable and intimidating situation.” – ‘I’d rather chill in and relax’: why millennials don’t go clubbing
• “Stress and anxiety strike almost everyone from time-to-time. It can be made worse by lack of sleep, the wrong mindset and unwanted intrusive thoughts. The collection of articles below describe how to sleep better, change unhelpful thought processes and tackle everyday stress and anxiety.” – Unwind: The Science of Rest, Relaxation and Sleep
• “Sleep is one of humanity’s great unifiers. It binds us to one another, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. No matter who we are, we share a common need for sleep. Though this need has been a constant throughout human history, our relationship to sleep, and our understanding of its vital benefits, has gone through dramatic ups and downs.” – The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

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