October 18, 2011 – 8:15 pm
Here are the slides from today’s ZendCon UnCon session on Domain-Driven Design: ZendCon 2011 UnCon Domain-Driven Design View more presentations from Bradley Holt If you were in this session, please give me feedback on Joind.in.
October 17, 2011 – 4:10 pm
Here are the slides from today’s ZendCon tutorial on Learning CouchDB: ZendCon 2011 Learning CouchDB View more presentations from Bradley Holt You can instead download the PDF version, if you’d prefer. If you were in this session, please give me feedback on Joind.in.
October 5, 2011 – 4:17 pm
This past Monday evening I was Appointed by the City Council of the City of Burlington, Vermont to the Telecommunications Advisory Committee. In this volunteer position, my role is to advise the City Council on matters related to Burlington Telecom, a municipally owned telecommunications services provider. I have many of my own opinions about Burlington [...]
October 2, 2011 – 1:15 pm
Here are the slides from today’s jQuery Conference presentation on CouchApps with CouchDB & jQuery: jQuery Conference Boston 2011 CouchApps View more presentations from Bradley Holt If you were in this talk, please give me feedback on SpeakerRate. Related links: Offline Apps HTML5 Web Storage Local Storage “Native” Mobile Web Apps jQuery Mobile PhoneGap Building [...]
September 29, 2011 – 12:33 pm
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at CouchConf New York City on October 24, 2011. This event is part of the CouchConf World Tour presented by Couchbase. My talk will be on CouchApps with CouchDB, JavaScript and HTML5. From the talk description: In this talk we’ll see how to build CouchApps using CouchDB, [...]
August 19, 2011 – 1:41 pm
Web application frameworks have varying support for the concepts behind Representational State Transfer (REST). Most web application frameworks, if not all, allow you to create “fully” RESTful web applications. However, there does not seem to be a focus on explicitly applying RESTful principles. So, here are the key concepts that I’d like to see addressed: [...]
There has been some discussion recently on the Zend Framework mailing list around release cycles. I proposed a release cycle of six months for major versions (someone else suggested eighteen months, which may be more reasonable for a framework). Rapid releases allow one to accelerate the cycle of building, measuring, and learning. Gathering data from [...]
August 8, 2011 – 12:58 pm
Vermont is a beautiful place to visit—especially in the fall! We’re looking for Vermonters and non-Vermonters alike to speak at this year’s Vermont Code Camp. Vermont Code Camp is organized entirely by community volunteers, with the help of our great sponsors (we’re still accepting sponsorships, too). Vermont Code Camp is a polyglot event. We’re looking [...]
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August 2, 2011 – 11:30 am
I’ve found CouchDB to be a great fit for domain-driven design (DDD). Specifically, CouchDB fits very well with the building block patterns and practices found within DDD. Two of these building blocks include Entities and Value Objects. Entities are objects defined by a thread of continuity and identity. A Value Object “is an object that [...]
There were quite a few NoSQL critics at OSCON this year. I imagine this was true of past years as well, but I don’t know that first hand. I think there are several reasons behind the general disdain for NoSQL databases. First, NoSQL is horrible name. It implies that there’s something wrong with SQL and [...]
