.NET

I have a few Visual Studio code snippets that I use regularly when testing out new installations of Couchbase Server.  I've just made them available on GitHub and Nuget.  Right now the snippets are fairly basic, but over time I'll work on creating some more best-practice and common task snippets.  At this point, the snippets are most useful for someone just starting out with the Couchbase .NET Client.

The first snippet (cbc) will take care of setting up a client instance using the default configuration (in code, not app|web.config)

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There are few, if any, better places to be a .NET developer than New York City.  From startups to hedge-funds, you're likely to find an opportunity to use your C# skills.  The prevalence of  .NET in the City isn't due to Microsoft, who maintains only a modest presence in the area, but rather to the exceptional community leaders who run the various .NET user groups in the Tri-State area. 

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Microsoft's recent updates to Windows Azure have introduced a variety of new features, ranging from Git deployments to node.js apps to support for running virtual machines (with Linux too!).  These changes couple Azure's existing Platform as a Service model with new Infrastructure as a Service features.  The new Azure is great news for developers, especially .NET developers who would like to deploy a cloud based ASP.NET app with a Couchbase cluster!

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NHibernate has long supported the notion of a 2nd level caches, where query results are saved to an out-of-process cache for faster retrieval.  The NHContrib project owns these caches, which include ASP.NET HttpCache, Velocity (AppFabric) and Memcached.  That last cache - Memcached - is implemented using the Enyim.Caching library upon which the .NET Couchbase Client Library depends.  Given that dependency and the fact that Couchbase is of course Memcached compatible, adding Couchbase to the set of available 2nd level ca

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Today I had the pleasure of spending some time with Attila Kisko, a Membase contributor and the author and maintainer of Enyim - the Membase Client Library for .NET. On holiday in San Francisco from Budapest, Hungary, Attila came by the office for a visit. I enjoyed our conversation, and thought I’d share some of it with others who may want to know a bit about the man behind one of the most popular and widely deployed open source client libraries within the Membase user community.

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