Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

It has been my pleasure to be attending the WebDU Conference in Sydney this week. And what an awesome week it was!

WebDU is a great conference that has now been going on for about 9 years organised by the Daemon(ites) from Daemon Internet Consultants and I think it is THE Web Conference to go to on this side of the world.

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Yesterday, I presented the NoSQL and CouchDB to the UK CFUG. I think it went down well and there were lots of questions and interest in the subject of Not Only SQL and how they can be used with your applications.

As promised, you can download the presentation with links and code samples here

You can also view the presentation over at Slide Six

You can check out the presentation on Adobe Connect: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p93766981/

I have spent a while working on this extension and after a hiatus of client work I managed to get it all uploaded and documented onto the Railo Wiki.

CouchDB is a noSQL database that allows you to store complex documents and get them by key (and revision), it is very performant and easy to replicate which makes it a great alternative as a distributed caching system, hence we created the CouchDB Cache Extension!

It is fairly simple to install, you just have to add the preview extension provider (http://preview.getrailo.org/ExtensionProvider.cfc) to the list of your Railo Extension Providers and then under your Extensions/Applications section you should now see the CouchDB Cache extension, just install that, create a Cache Connection and start using it for your Objects, Templates, Queries etc!

There are more detailed installation instructions over at the Wiki, why not check it out? http://wiki.getrailo.com/wiki/extensions:couchdb

I am really happy to say that I shall be presenting at cf.Objective (ANZ) this year! I had a great time last year in Melbourne and glad that this year I won't just be manning the Railo stand (do come and say hello!) but I shall also be doing a presentation on CouchDB 

CouchDB is a "noSQL" database that is rather exciting in how it works as well as a highly performant document database.

If you manage to make it, make sure you either come to my session or at least pop by and say hello to the Railo team!