Monthly Archives: March 2009
Greetings Officefighter
In the beginning you were a Starfighter, recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada… well, actually the beginning was something much simpler, something more like Space Invaders. Space Invaders was a classic, … Continue reading
Posted in hacks, hardware, innovation, iobridge
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CouchDB Performance or Use a File
If this is the first post you’ve read from my blog you should probably go check some others and assert for yourself that I’m a big fan of couchDB. Even if it wasn’t easy to be impressed by Damon Katz’s, … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb, python
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Could a couchdb guru explain this, please?
I’m in the process of trying to build (and benchmarking) a couchdb project and I decided to use some word count & frequency samples as data. Since “word count” and “grep” are the quintessential map/reduce examples I thought this would … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb, frustration
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How to build Couchdb on Dreamhost
As you know from many of my entries I’m a big fan of couchdb, and if you’re interested you should really be following janl, jchris and lethain as they push this technology forward. As you might also guess from my … Continue reading
Posted in code, couchdb
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Building CouchDB
This is a quick technical post for posterity, if you’re not interested I won’t be offended if you leave now. I’m working to try to get couchdb on my hosting provider, Dreamhost. They’ve been a great service for me so … Continue reading