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I’m speaking at the Erlang Factory conference in April

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - February 25, 2009

I’m very happy to announce I will be giving an updated keynote “CouchDB and Me” talk at the Erlang Factory conference (SF Bay Area, April 30 - March 1). I’m pretty excited, this is my first Erlang conference and will be great to meet a…

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CouchDB and Me

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - February 04, 2009

This is a talk I gave last year at RubyFringe, about the whole process of me and my wife selling our house and living off savings to create CouchDB. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me

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Quote of the Day

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - January 21, 2009

When you do a mashup, you’re supposed to get your peanut butter in my chocolate, not lodge your fork in my goddamned eye socket. Found on Reddit regarding X#, the XML oriented programming language.

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Briefly

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - December 27, 2008

Briefly this evening, I thought about spending some time playing around with Processing. I’d take a few days, learn some new stuff, create animations that do nothing in particular but look cool, set it to some music. I have lots of ideas I want to…

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Arrays, What’s the point? Good Question

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - December 25, 2008

As I’m programming I haven’t seen an instance where an array is better for storing information than another form thereof. I had indeed figured the added “features” in programming languages had improved upon this and by that replaced them. I see now that they aren’t…

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My Development Methodology

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - December 25, 2008

Try real hard. Expanding that out a little: Sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff, question everything, panic, don’t panic, throw out everything, change focus, stay the course, tell everyone, tell no one. And above all, try real hard. That usually seems to produce good results. YMMV.

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Interview at Rubyfringe

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - December 04, 2008

Here’s a video interview I did at Rubyfringe. Enjoy. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/CouchDB-Damien-Katz

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Major Award

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - December 04, 2008

I recently won Erlanger of the Year at the Erlang User Conference 2008 in Stockholm. I couldn’t go to accept the award in-person, but here’s a picture of me accepting it from my daughter, in a small ceremony at home. It’s an honor and a…

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CouchDB is now officially Apache CouchDB

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - November 21, 2008

CouchDB has graduated from incubator to a top level project. This is a big step for the project. Congratulations to Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, Christopher Lenz, Noah Slater and everyone else who’s contributed to the project. As a special limited-time promotion,you can get free sugar…

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Free TV Show Idea: The Obsessive Compulsive Time Traveler

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - November 15, 2008

I was reading a story about a guy whose been obsessed for 50 years with building a time machine to warn his dad not to smoke. Someone brought up the point that if the guy was one day successful, wouldn’t his father have not died?…

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