Get Comfy With CouchDB

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

Couchdb is one of the more mature schema-less map/reduce object dbs out there. In this talk we'll cover the basics of what CouchDB is, and why it's cool, and then we'll run through a sample application. The application will show off LINQ to Couch, basic persistance, views and full-text search with CouchDB-Lucene.

Alex Pedenko has been in software development for about 13 years, starting off on Borland Delphi, then spending about 4 years in Java and finally making the switch to .net around '03

Currently, he is the director of software architecture and chief architect at a healthcare services company. He has used that role as an opportunity to inject some modern ideas into an otherwise lagging industry, moving the company from a classic "giant web-app strapped to an even more giant db", to a distributed, service-oriented environment utilizing RESTful services, and rich-client applications.

Alex is also involved in a number of Open Source projects like Bistro and NDjango, and the .net side of CouchDB via Divan and LoveSeat

Please register with your real first and last names because you'll need to identify yourself at the Sears Tower front desk. The front desk will have the list of attendees. If you can't register in time, show up anyway and call Sergio (224-627-8352) when you get to the front desk and we will let you in. We meet on the 7th floor, room 750. Ignore the front desk if they tell you otherwise.