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CFUnited 2010 talk on NoSQL

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:14:16 +0000

For those that missed the CFUnited blog post (http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/2/15/The-next-set-of-topics), I’ll be explaining how to do ColdFusion with noSQL!

Do you have data that doesn’t fit cleanly into a relational model? A social graph? Or sparsely populated (spreadsheet-style) tables? Does your relational database limit your scalability? There’s an app for that!

Come find out about the NoSQL movement used everywhere from Twitter and Yahoo to state governments to the Large Hadron Collider. The NoSQL (aka Not Only SQL) movement encompasses a wide range of database alternatives including:
* document-centric (schema-less) databases
* massively scalable data * graph databases
* distributed and parallel processing data

The vast majority of these tools are open-source, play nicely with Java servers, and speak JSON which makes them very serious contenders for building ColdFusion applications that just don’t fit cleanly into SQL-based models.

Ruby NoSQL at ShRUG

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:40:13 +0000

John Paul is going to be presenting a talk about NoSQL and using Ruby to work with NoSQL databases at the next meeting of the Shenandoah Ruby Users Group (ShRUG).

If you’re in the Harrisonburg, VA area, please join us at the Transitionpoint office on Tu, Feb 23 at 5:30 PM.

More on ShRUG meetings is available at our meetup.com site
More on John Paul Ashenfelter is available on his personal blog

Moving to Bigger Accelerator

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:42:03 +0000

Turns out that Wordpress needs more horsepower than the shared Accelerators at Joyent can readily provide. The dedicated accelerator I’ve had just sitting there seems to be more than adequate but it will take a while for the dust to settle from this change as well.

Upgrading to WordPress

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:54:16 +0000

Finally crossing off a 5-year todo list item and upgrading the Transitionpoint site to WordPress. Things will be rocky for the rest of the evening as I make the changes.