Apache CouchDB is one of the more promising technologies under the NoSQL distinction.  The project is strongly supported by commercial backers such as Cloudant, who plans to sell cloud services for CouchDB.  By making the non-relational database more scalable, Cloudant hopes it can increase CouchDB adoption.Eric Florenzano's blog on NoSQL technologies spoke highly of Couch DB:

ColdFusion Builder is the first IDE built specifically for ColdFusion.  Currently in its third beta, CF Builder doesn't use a GUI interface for designing interfaces in WYSIWYG fashion.  Instead, it breaks free from the pre-packaged functionality with extensions to expand the Eclipse-based environment.  An introduction to CF Builder is given by Simon Free, who works with E-Bim. ...

Let me start by saying I have the utmost respect for the WebKit team, and all the amazing things they have delivered with their rendering engine. Also, very important, for putting pressure on other rendering engine vendors and making them step up. What I would like to talk about today is the rendering speed in WebKit. As we all know, it is very fast and has gotten very good standards...

Adobe: References Reference:  Flex and mobile, a whitepaper to create Flex application for mobile devices Mitchell Pronsc...

Former Novell CTO Becomes W3C CEO

About a decade ago, I discovered the concept of Literate Programming. It's seductive. The idea is to write elegant documentation that embeds the actual working code. For tricky, complex, high-visibility components, a literate programming approach can give people confidence that the software actually works as advertised. References Reference:  ...

R.I.P. Felipe Gaúcho: DZone MVB & Tireless Java Advocate The DZone team was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many years, as well as being a key JUG leader.

The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels--reinventing well-established genres, challenging desktop applications, and jump-starting a renaissance in web start-ups. List in Express Request?:  ...

With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in the not too distant future, Google has been slowly adding most of its services (starting with search in 2008) to it's IPv6 program.  IPv6 is essential to the continuing health and openness of the internet, blogs Google.  In their official blog Google announced they'd be adding appspot.com and Google App Engine to the Google over IPv6 domain in a week.  

This week's DZone Refcard is about Getting Started with the Zend Framework. The card introduces you to the basics of the Zend Framework and sets you on the path to creating your first project. I met the author, Jason Gilmore, to find out more about the topic.

JavaFX Eclipse Plugin Goes Open Source   Exadel, the organization that makes a JavaFX plugin for Eclipse, recently launched exadel.org and released a new version of the plugin.  Version 1.2.2 includes a new JavaFX Script Wizard and an outline view with navigation.  Exadel has been promising to make the plugin open source and they have now announced that the source code is available under the...

Transaction design seems to be really hard for some people. The transactions they build seem to based on some crazy assumptions. The problem is that benchmarking is hard because you have to build enough stuff to get a meaningful benchmark. Everyone thinks your done when really, all you did was show that you've got a rotten design. James Sugrue ...

iPad Coming to the US on April 3rd   

Today, Adobe continues its love-fest for any Flash-supporting mobile platform while nurturing its hatred for the Flash-free iPhone.  It's great news for Android developers because they can finally embed Photoshop.com Mobile into their applications.  The Photoshop.com Mobile team just announced version 1.1 of their Android software.  Also announced today was a

I always believed in Subversion's potential and that it would be a wide improvement over the nightmare that was CVS, but I found out that, as Linus says, There is no way to do CVS right.References Reference:  Why I'm leaving Subversion for Git Mitchell Pronsc...

Transaction design seems to be really hard for some people. The transactions they build seem to based on some crazy assumptions. The problem is that benchmarking is hard because you have to build enough stuff to get a meaningful benchmark. Everyone thinks your done when really, all you did was show that you've got a rotten design.References Reference:  ...

Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While   The WSJ has been talking with Facebook and gaining some early access to their plans for the future.  Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, confirmed that the company will eventually go public, but not anytime soon.  Mark is worried that going public will make the company less flexible.  Facebook also projects between $1.2 - $2 billion in...

When Europeans download the latest Windows update, they will see a browser ballot site the next time they open Internet Explorer.  This is the result of an EU antitrust investigation aimed at Microsoft after Opera filed a formal complaint almost two years ago.  The Norwegian browser maker said that by bundling Windows and IE together, Microsoft was limiting browser competition.  Microsoft...

Silverlight 4 is now supporting the commanding that we’ve come to love from WPF. Commanding was a foundational feature for MVVM. It’s what enabled us to bind to methods on our view models. John Papa has an excellent introductory post on using commands in Silverlight 4. This pattern is called the DelegatingCommand pattern (or sometimes RelayingCommand). References Reference:  ...

The pattern of today is the Memento one, whose intent is storing the state of an Originator object without breaking its encapsulation, which typically consists in a set of private fields.References Reference:  Practical Php Patterns: Memento Mitchell Pronsc...