Jasdeep Jaitla's blog

January 27, 2013

Easy PHP-Couchbase Setup for Mac with Bitnami

Setting up PHP can be a bit of a pain on both Windows and Mac OS X. There are a lot of different ways of doing it, but many of them come with a variety of annoyances or confusion. Additionally, on Mac you've got Apache and PHP 5.3 already on your system, but modifying it can be non-intuitive as well.

Using Bitnami has been by far the easiest and most straightforward install I've come across.

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January 26, 2013

Understanding group_level in View Queries with Compound Keys

Querying Views is what views are all about. Our documentation is great and can be found here: http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-views.html

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January 18, 2013

Understanding Letter Ordering in View Queries

Map/Reduce Views are an important part of Couchbase 2.0 and understanding how to query them is also important. Our documentation is great and can be found here: http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-views.html

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August 21, 2012

Schema Flexibility is SCRUMptious

Waterfall Methodologies seem antiquated nowadays, with SCRUM, Crystal, eXtreme, Kanban and others, all these new paradigms for building applications iteratively and quickly have really become commonplace. I feel NoSQL with Couchbase is the next evolution of that movement, allowing you to develop the data model just as smoothly and iteratively, and a lot more quickly.

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July 16, 2012

Do More With Less

This is my "Hello World", or rather my "Hello Blog" and I wanted to introduce myself. I, like many, have come from the startup world. Let's not kid ourselves, being from the "startup world" means being from the technology scrapyard for the most part. You have to have a thick skin and you face daunting odds. That's what makes it exciting. 

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