Implementing great forms can be a real time-waster. With just a few lines of JSON, you can use MSON to generate forms that perform real-time validation and have a consistent layout. And, MSON comes with a bunch of cool stuff like date pickers, masked fields and field collections. Disclaimer: this…

I’ve spent the last 7 months working on a new programming language called MSON (pronounced Mason). Here is a nerdy post about why I did it, how it works and where I want to take it. There are already a bazillion programming languages, why do we need another? Software continues to eat the world and software development tools are evolving at lightning speeds, but it stills takes an in-depth knowledge of a programming language to develop software. Sure, there are millions of open-source projects that can be mashed together and robust cloud platforms that make the process easier…

In Scalable CouchDB Replication and Change Listening with Spiegel, I summarized how you can use Spiegel to scale your replication and change listening. Be sure to read that introduction before exploring this follow-up article. In this post we are going to use a basic example to step through how you…

Editor’s Note: This article on Spiegel is intended for those who already have some familiarity with Apache CouchDB™, a JSON database known for its excellent offline sync capabilities. …

I recently had the privilege to attend Offline Camp, a 4-day retreat that brings together a select group of people to discuss offline-first development and design. One of the unconference sessions I participated in was CouchDB, PouchDB and Hoodie as a Stack for Progressive Web Apps. In this session a…

Imagine that you’ve got your new shiny CouchDB cluster working in production and then a node goes down. If your design is solid and you have enough CouchDB nodes still left running, your app should keep chugging along. You on the other hand, will want to know why a node…