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My CouchDB Reference is going to Google I/O (unfortunately without me):

Nitin Borwankar of Couchio asked for permission to distribute them there, and I gladly granted it.

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 10:38 | 0 comments
Categories: Books

Do you want to quickly experience CouchDB's powerful replication? Jan Lehnardt, one of the people behind CouchDB, announced yesterday that he'd made a copy of the very good book Pro Git available as a CouchDB Application (a CouchApp). There are two ways you can go about getting that:

Follow his instructions on getting the app with [...]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 09:21 | 0 comments
Categories: Books, CLI, Database, MacOSX, NoSQL

After starting off with CouchDB I thought I'd create a reference card (a.k.a. cheat sheet) for myself, a bit like the one I created for proxy configuration files. As I'm rather satisfied with the result, I thought I'd share this PDF with you.

Go ahead and get The Antepenultimate CouchDB Reference Card. If you have suggestions [...]

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 13:35 | 2 comments
Categories: Apache, Books, CLI, Database, NoSQL

The NanoBSD article I submitted a few weeks ago will appear on page 146 of issue 05/2010 of ix magazine.

A bit of stuff was chopped out, particularly details on the PC Engines' series of ALIX boards. One thing I particularly miss in the article (although I realize the magazine needs to watch for space wasting) [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 13:18 | 0 comments
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I've completed and submitted my article on NanoBSD, the "miniature" FreeBSD. At 3000+ words, turned out a bit longer than I had expected, so I hope they won't chop too much of it.
NanoBSD works wonders on PC Engines' ALIX series of boards, so I've used some of those as examples for NanoBSD usage. I [...]

Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 14:44 | 0 comments
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 20:35 | 2 comments
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What a week!
It started off with a smashing dinner I was invited to at the Temple of Beef in Düsseldorf, and it ended with good meetings, lots of talk, and a truckload (really!) of gifts I carried home:

Loads of my favorite mustard, a cherry something with lots of alcohol in it called Krumme (to [...]

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 18:46 | 0 comments
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A couple of Wikis, static XHTML, self-made XML, documents in a custom Lotus Notes database, text files here and there (often in Markdown syntax), and a pile of e-mails contain the bulk of documentation I've created during the past several years at a client. (It's a mess, but it could be worse.) I have got [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 20:34 | 1 comment
Categories: Books