There’s a new meme traversing the Internet. It involves compiling a list of albums (long play records) for each year of your life. In my case there’s 36 years of albums to choose from, going all the way back to 1972. One further rule is that you’re not allowed to pick an artist/band more than once: so no picking Prince for Purple Rain in 1984 and also for Sign O’ The Times in 1987. I’ve spent lunchtime today, and about three hours tonight compiling what I think is the definitive list, although in Ridley Scott terms, I reserve the right to issue “Director’s...

I’ve been playing around with and kicking the tyres of CouchDB for a couple of weeks and I’m truly excited about the project. If I was to use tags to describe CouchDB I’d use the following: apache, opensource, documents, metadata, database, json, javascript, REST, addressability, horizontal scaling, erlang. So I found myself at Railscamp UK on the weekend without a ruby+rails topic to really talk about during the presentations part of the camp. I’m still a noob wrt. Rails, you see. Realising that CouchDB is relevant to most web developers because most developers deal with...