Releases

• 2.1.0 milestone progress report

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couchdb 0.6.0 (Rust) – The CouchDB library provides types for working with CouchDB.
• couchdb-rest 1.0.0 – CouchDB restful api module

PouchDB

• angular-pouchdb-logger 0.8.0 – A module for enabling logging to web database via PouchDB and $log delegate.
• vuepouch-db 1.0.4 – A tiny library to enable you work with PouchDB in a Vuejs app.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [PROPOSAL] Include replication scheduler in 2.1, Joan Touzet
• [POST] Don’t Just Relax; Slouch: A JS Client for CouchDB that Does the Heavy Lifting, Geoff Cox
• [POST] Querying your Cloudant database with SQL, Glynn Bird
• [POST] NoSQL – CouchDB vs Couchbase, Kent Jiang
• [POST] Easy Access to All Points of Interest Data, Margriet Groenendijk
• [POST] Hacking vs. Prototyping vs. Production Code, Glynn Bird

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• time2relax: a Python CouchDB driver (requests under the hood)

Stack Overflow:

• How to find all documents in CouchDB using Ektrop library
• How to deploy an Ionic app with CouchDB and PouchDB using Heroku?
• Monitoring replication on CouchDB with CouchBase Lite
• ‘doc_del_count’ bigger than ‘doc_count’ on CouchDB
• Display calculated data with CouchDB and PouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Listen to changes of all databases in CouchDB

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• Angular and PouchDBFind plugin
• db.createIndex is not a function

no public answer yet:

• Adding PouchDB error jQuery

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

• August 3, Nottingham, UK: Women in Tech, Nottingham: CouchDB, PouchDB and Offline-Tolerant Applications
• October 9-11, Berlin, Germany: React Days 2017, We are building a Progressive Web app
• October 23-27, Munich, Germany: International JavaScript Conference

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Cloud Software Developer – Innovation Center, Los Angeles (CA), US
• Web Application Developer, Brandon (FL), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Senior Backend Engineer with NodeJS, Atlanta (GA), US
• Sr Architect – Platform Services Architect (Mobile), Menomonee Falls (WI), US
• Senior Web Developer, Atlanta (GA), US
• Sr. Backend Software Engineer, San Francisco (CA), US
• Senior Java Engineer, Atlanta (GA), US
• Data Warehouse Architect & Mentor, Monrovia, Liberia
• PHP Web Developer / Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

Time to relax!

• “When shooting a documentary, the vast majority of what you film gets edited out of the final production. But instead of letting thousands of hours of breathtaking footage go to waste, the creators of Planet Earth II have re-purposed hundreds of breathtaking mountaintop shots into this 10-hour-long relaxation tool.” – Chill Out With 10 Full Hours of Relaxing Planet Earth Mountain Footage
• “As adults, our summers tend to be no different from any other potentially stressful time of the year. That doesn’t mean there aren’t still perks of the hot season, though.” – Summer’s best ways to de-stress (that aren’t a vacation)
• “A recent study from the University of Sydney found that women who ate five to seven daily servings of fruits and vegetables slashed their risk for stress by 23 percent compared with those who ate fewer or none.” – These Surprising Foods Could Help You De-Stress
• “It’s important to establish what’s going on, to work out their current situation, and make sure they’re getting what they need. If their mental health issues are going to impact their work longterm, you, as a boss, needs to know about it – and you need to create a plan together on how you’re going to work around it.” – How bosses can make their workplace more mental health friendly

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• A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy
• Apple previews new emoji coming later this year
• Half of All Plastic That Has Ever Existed Was Made in the Past 13 Years

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