I mentioned CouchDB in my last post, but didn’t really elaborate on what it was. 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 [...]

I have been working on a web project at work for the past month and used it as an opportunity to learn jQuery and CouchDB. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. While learning it, I [...]