Releases

• The 2017 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey is going on right now!

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couchbackup 1.4.0 – CouchBackup is a command-line utility that allows a CouchDB database to be backed-up to a text file.

PouchDB

• fun-pouchdb 4.1.0 – Thin wrapper around PouchDB for convenient server use

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps, Bradley Holt

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [VIDEO] Building Offline First apps with Hoodie, Gregor Martynus

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• Ddoc Lab – offline first IDE for couchapps and design docs for CouchDB

Stack Overflow:

• View active user sessions
• Using Promise with CouchDB nano & forEach
• Get Hindi data from Apache CouchDB 1.6.1
• Allow single login per account – CouchDB

no public answer yet:

• CouchDB installation location on Ubuntu?
• How to remote access the CouchDB on google cloud compute instance
• Restore single CouchDB database on cluster environment
• Ember js: retrieving all documents from CouchDB

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• Cahera: Point of Sale solution, built with Vue.js and PouchDB

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB Update Document: DataCloneError

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB sync cancel and restart
• Trouble with replicate with PouchDB

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

• April 28-May 1, Berlin, Germany: Offline Camp
• May 6-7, Berlin, Germany: JSConf Europe
• May 16-18, Miami, Florida: ApacheCon and Apache Big Data
• May 18-19, North Charleston (SC), US: SyntaxCon
• May 24, Atlanta (GA), US: php[tek] 2017 – CouchDB: Scalable NoSQL for Modern Applications

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Los Angeles (CA), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Python Backend Engineer for Next-Gen Agriculture Data Platform startup, Salt Lake City (UT), US
• Senior Backend Engineer with NodeJS, Atlanta (GA), US/Remote
• Modern Server Developer, Gainesville (FL), US
• Senior Backend Software Engineer, San Francisco (CA), US
• Senior Software Engineer, Baltimore (MD), US
• Senior Software Engineer (.NET), St. Paul (MN), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Cloud Software Developer – Innovation Center, Los Angeles (CA), US

Time to relax!

• “I’ve mentioned it many times before, but while I like to relax, I prefer to keep my brain stimulated with some challenge so it doesn’t turn into mush. And while I feel like I’ve tried every puzzle game out there, I’m still always looking out for more, and Polycolor is one that intrigued me when I saw it on the App Store. After spending some time with it, I can say that it’s definitely a clever puzzle to unwind with.” – Color Your Way to Zen in Polycolor’s Relaxing Puzzles
• “Dan Bell proves he’s the Ken Burns of suburban decay with his beautifully shot and narrated Dead Mall Series. The Rehoboth Mall episode above is especially interesting because he interviews one of two remaining tenants, husband and wife tailors working on the periphery of the abandoned food court. Dan’s eye for detail and music choices are sublime. It’s the sort of footage that historians will cite decades hence, it’s that good.” – Watch these soothing tours of barely-open malls
• “[Researchers] at the Stanford University School of Medicine looked at which neurons within the brain stem are responsible for regulating different types of breathing — regular, yawning, sighing, and so on. After searching through public databases, researchers identified these neurons by the process of elimination: ‘knocking out’ a single type of neuron in laboratory mice and analyzing how it affected their breathing.” – Study Reveals The Best Way To De-Stress & It’s Actually Pretty Simple
• “Rhythmic breathing has a mental effect, says Dr. Wei, who co-authored ‘The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga.’ It draws your attention away from what is stressing you and toward what you’re feeling, which has a calming effect. In addition, you trigger positive psychological changes.” – A Harvard-trained psychologist shows you how to destress at work in just 2 minutes

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