Hi Dan, Congrats on the presentation. It was very cool and intuitive.
I don't understand why CouchDB relies on ?rev=... for queries. I hate that syntax :P Yes I'm a RoR adict. I give you that :P Nuno On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Dan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > A couple of weeks ago, I gave a 20-minute presentation on CouchDB at > the code4lib conference (a collection of library developers and > library geeks). The session was recorded, and the video will be > available from the Internet Archive at some point in the future - but > I thought I would share the slides with the community: > http://coffeecode.net/archives/151-CouchDB-delicious-sacrilege.html > > Note that: > > 1) My background is with relational databases - 8 years with DB2 and > co-authoring a book on Apache Derby - so the "delicious sacrilege" of > the title refers to my encounters with a document database > > 2) Owing to those 8 years at IBM, I had a whole lot of (mostly bad) > experiences with Notes. But after a few days of playing around with > CouchDB, I'm a believer in its potential for good. > > 3) I was running CouchDB trunk as of two weeks ago, so I think I got > hit by the API change for attachments and couldn't successfully > retrieve the attachments I was adding to docs. No big deal; I knew > what was going on. > > 4) I was hoping to have the 200 people in the audience playing with > CouchDB on my laptop during my presentation, but suffered a desktop > crash on the way to the podium which brought down the server. Alas, no > live scalability test :( > > I should note that the presentation itself is licensed under a > Creative Commons BY-NC license, should anyone want to reuse or improve > it. > > A big thanks to Damian and the rest of the CouchDB developers! > > -- > Dan Scott > Laurentian University > -- Nuno Job IBM DB2 Student Ambassador [ http://caos.di.uminho.pt/~db2] Open Source Support Center Member [http://caos.di.uminho.pt] Blog [ http://nunojob.wordpress.com ] LinkedIn [ http://www.linkedin.com/in/njpinto]
