Many years ago, when I just learned about XML web services (it was around the time of the .NET 1.0 betas), one of the coolest things about it, I thought, was WSDL. The Web Service Description Language — this is a language in which you essentially define the interface of a SOAP webservice. Not…

For the past few days I’ve been dabbling with CouchDB. Trying to figure out what it can do and how it’s different than traditional relational databases. According to the site:

CouchDB is designed for document-oriented applications. A typical real-world document…

Yesterday I discovered CouchDB. It’s a little early, but I want to give people who are interested some links to have a look at, if they are interested.

• CouchDB documentation wiki
• Google Code page (to download it)
• Futuretalk: CouchDB

I spent some more time with CouchDB yesterday. Something useful to do while my work project is compiling ;) I’m considering building some simple applications with CouchDB to figure out what the applications of CouchDB are and its limitations. Maybe a blog application or something like that…

For my research I use Google Scholar quite a bit. It works reasonably well, although I would like more control over the results I get (like ordering them by date published). Last week, however, I found the killer feature:

Google’s BigTable — GQL Reference:

A GQL query cannot perform a SQL-like “join” query.

A Google employee (second post by “ryan”):

Bruce Eckel:

So when features like Java Generics are added badly (in my opinion)
to the language, I find it frustrating and my perspective is that they
should have just done the right thing when adding the feature.
But it never really occurred to me that…

• Programming CouchDB with Javascript, a nice tutorial about how to build a simple todo list with only CouchDB and Javascript.

The company behind Ubuntu has now released version 1.0 of Bazaar, a distributed version control system. Features:

• Friendly. Distributed version control doesn’t need to be complex. Bazaar is Distributed Version Control for Human Beings. Bazaar has a…