CouchDB built on Erlang

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

CouchDB: The interesting thing is that CouchDB automatically provides the REST front end that you tend to build on top of Java object stores like JBoss Cache or Coherence — An even more interesting thing is that it’s built on Erlang. This project gets more interesting every time I hear about it — it binds [...]



JavaScript Puzzlers

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I have just attended a great course on JavaScript soft typing by Peter Thiemann. No doubt I’ll write more about it later, but today I want to show how fun and quirky can JavaScript be.
Note that all puzzles are given in succession and every next one includes all the code of the previous ones. Also [...]



Aptana Jaxer or sliced bread?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Sometimes a technology appears that is just so damn cool you are amazed. More often than not the ideas behind it can be quite simple.
Aptana Jaxer is exactly such a technology. There is nothing new about having a server-side API. There is nothing new about building applications in HTML and JavaScript. The genius part is [...]