I am a software developer, web developer, entrepreneur, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content. I am the technical director and co-founder of Found Line—a creative firm located in Burlington, Vermont—where I develop standards-based, accessible, and cross-browser compatible web applications.
This week I attended and presented at CouchConf Boston. I’d like to thank Couchbase for inviting me to speak—it was a great opportunity to meet other CouchDB and Couchbase users. I’ve posted the slides from my Entity Relationships in a Document Database talk to Speaker Deck (and SlideShare, if you prefer): The presentation covered four [...]
Today is the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) International Day Against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). This being done as part of the FSF’s Defective by Design anti-DRM campaign. To celebrate Day Against DRM O’Reilly Media is having a sale of 50% off all of its ebooks (which are all DRM-free) including Writing and Querying MapReduce Views [...]
I will be giving a presentation on Entity Relationships in a Document Database at CouchConf Boston on May 15th. The talk description: Unlike relational databases, document databases like CouchDB and Couchbase do not directly support entity relationships. This talk will explore patterns of modeling one-to-many and many-to-many entity relationships in a document database. These patterns [...]
Use of the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern is generally accepted as a best practice in modern web applications. Like all design patterns, MVC is a reusable solution to a common problem. The MVC pattern is intended to address the following concerns: Support for multiple types of clients Reduce duplicate code when supporting multiple [...]
The Boston PHP Northeast Conference’s Call for Papers will be closing on Thursday, April 12th so be sure to get your talk submissions in before then! The conference will be taking place on Saturday, August 11th and Sunday, August 12th at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA and will be focused around four tracks: Core [...]
January 5, 2012 – 2:42 pm
“What’s the future of CouchDB? It’s Couchbase.” —Damien Katz “The future of CouchDB is CouchDB.” —Noah Slater First of all, don’t panic. The Apache CouchDB project is thriving. There are plenty of core contributors who are dedicated to the project. If you’re using CouchDB, you’re fine. If you’re considering using CouchDB, you’ll be fine. CouchDB [...]
December 30, 2011 – 12:15 pm
Continuing a trend started by Cal Evans and then followed by Chris Cornutt, Matthew Turland, and Joe Devon; here are the top five most viewed posts from my blog in 2011. 5. CouchDB and Domain-Driven Design This post covered two topics that are of great interest to me. Document databases like CouchDB have much potential [...]
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December 12, 2011 – 10:41 am
I’m excited to be able to announce that the first ever Boston PHP Northeast Conference will be taking place on Saturday, August 11th and Sunday, August 12th at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. This regional event is intended for PHP beginners, enthusiasts, and professionals alike. The current plan is to have four tracks: Core [...]
November 29, 2011 – 11:31 am
If you develop web apps, I encourage you to check out The Twelve-Factor App. This is an excellent resource for anyone building and deploying software-as-a-service. PHP has great support for many of the twelve-factors. I want to take a look at specifically how each factor may be applied to a PHP application. I. Codebase “One [...]
October 27, 2011 – 4:05 pm
Here are the slides from Monday’s CouchConf NYC session on CouchApps with CouchDB, JavaScript and HTML5: CouchConf NYC CouchApps View more presentations from Bradley Holt
