As promised, I’ve jotted down scattered notes on my first experiences with CouchDB, with ample reliance on references. At this point I have very limited practical experience with CouchDB and more RTFM time, so this post will focus on a little of the theory behind the design.
Tag: javascript
A Dynamic Programming Language Defined by URLs
One of the problems with modern programming languages is heavy installation. Last year I tried convincing a friend to learn some modern programming languages with me, and we couldn’t get his dev environment to work. He gave up after a couple of days, and I didn’t know about the adobe meeting/screen share tool at the time to walk him through setup.
Javascript jQuery plugins visualizations don’t look half bad
Late last night I was digging around looking for a replacement to our flash interface and I came across an incredible collection of javascript visualizations. Here are some design issues with the current cloud: (more…)
Javascript Twitter Realtime Search Widget
Part of Social Gravity, a new interface we’re building for social data, relies on a clean search portal to track entities/hashtags. After browsing through several remote scripts options I decided on the offical Twitter search widget which is functional, branded, but limited in how much we can adapt it. The alternative was modifying a simple but easy to understand script example, the jquery Twitter ticker. Our baseline is the official Twitter widget code, while I explore what can be done with the raw JavaScript interface to the pipeline of data. Even if the script I write gets discarded (which is likely), the skill of slightly more competent JavaScript coding will come in handy.