NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 17 September 2008 at CUDL: Chris Anderson on CouchDB

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 Columbia University's Developer Lounge: Guest Speaker Series

 Special Guest - Chris Anderson: CouchDB Tech Talk

 Date: Wednesday, September 17
 Time: 6pm
 Location: Columbia University, 523 Butler Library
 Maps & Directions: 
   http://tinyurl.com/52vaop
   http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/butler_library.html
   Take the 1 train to 116th street (NOT the 2/3 express trains).

 Please RSVP to jonah at ccnmtl dot columbia dot edu. If you don't have  
 a Columbia ID you must RSVP by Tuesday September 16th.

 Chris Anderson is co-founder of Grabb.it, a Portland-based web
 startup which provides Web analytics for the music industry. He
 specializes in CouchDB based web search and large scale CouchDB
 deployment, both for Grabb.it and as an independent consultant.

 Chris will give an introduction to CouchDB, demonstrate some
 example Javascript code for building a blog (and show how
 replication works by letting everyone on the local net copy the
 application to their local install of CouchDB), and give a quick
 tour of the internals for anyone interested in contributing to
 the project.

 Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
 document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON
 API.  Among other features, it provides robust, incremental
 replication with bi-directional conflict detection and
 resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented
 view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition
 language.

 CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any
 environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are
 a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even
 easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.

 For more information about CouchDB see http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/

 If you have any questions, please contact Terry Catapano thc4 at
 columbia dot edu or Jonah Bossewitch - jonah at ccnmtl dot
 columbia dot edu
  
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
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