Join us November 5th at 6 PM for Chris Anderson's introduction to the CouchDB framework. Chris is a Portland-based entrepreneur at Grabb.it and the co-author of an upcoming O'Reilly book on CouchDB.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.

This event is free to the public. In order to accommodate the appropriate number of attendees, please rsvp to: [email protected].

The event takes place at OpenSourcery: 711 SE Ankeny (on Ankeny and SE 7th, one block south of Burnside). We encourage biking and public transportation.

The first monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory. Topics slated for this meeting include:

• SproutCore - An overview of this new client-side web application framework
• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Tips on how to write beautiful JavaScript from the book by Douglas Crockford
• jQuery 1.3 - New features in the web's most dynamic DOM library
• CouchDB - An introduction to the world of document-oriented databases

More topics are welcome! If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer.

The February meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics slated for this meeting are:

• An Introduction to CouchDB from a Beginner's Perspective by Merlyn Albery-Speyer
• CouchApps Demonstrated by J. Chris Anderson
• Overview of Mapstraction, a Unified Interface to Various Mapping APIs by Adam DuVander
• JSONP for Cross-Domain Scripting by Jesse Hallett

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our website at http://pdxjs.com/ for more information.

This month Max Ogden will be on hand to talk about Couchappspora < http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora >, the social communication revolution that he has started. Couchappspora is inspired by Diaspora < http://www.joindiaspora.com/ > but is built as a couchapp using CouchDB < http://couchdb.apache.org/ >.

In addition, Jesse Hallett will present an end-to-end tutorial on how to set up JSTestDriver < http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/ > to automate the process of running QUnit tests < http://docs.jquery.com/Qunit > using QUnitTestRunnerPlugin < http://github.com/jivesoftware/QUnitTestRunnerPlugin >. We have had talks on testing before, including a great talk from Duncan Beevers on simulating time with Bobble < http://github.com/duncanbeevers/bobble >. In this talk Jesse will focus on automation and asynchronous tests, including more discussion on when simulated time or asynchronicity is the better choice and when to mix and match.

There will be pizza provided by Jive Software.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

PLEASE RSVP AT http://couchbase-meetup-pdx-erec.eventbrite.com/

In conjunction with JSConf, Couchbase will be in Portland for this one-time meetup!

Our own J. Chris Anderson and Dustin Sallings will be hosting an afternoon event. In this live coding tutorial, they will take you from never having downloaded CouchDB or Couchbase, all the way through to a running jQuery-based real time chat app.

We will also have some lightning talks by some of our community members.

Thanks to JSConf and Update Portland for helping us put this together.

Couchbase is the name of the new NoSQL database company and product family created through the merger of CouchOne and Membase. Couchbase products, which are built on Apache CouchDB, Membase, and memcached open source software, represent the most comprehensive family of data management solutions for building scalable web and mobile applications, with indexing, flexible querying and ease of use that developers love; and elastic clustering, robust storage management and consistently high performance relied on by system administrators and operators. Couchbase is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. www.couchbase.com

We've had lots of requests for Apache CouchDB Training in Portland, so we'll be doing a two day training at souk in downtown Portland.

Day one of the of CouchDB training course provides an introduction to using and working with CouchDB, covering the key aspects of interacting with CouchDB, essential tools for working with CouchDB, the core API, document design, views, replication, bulk documents and document validation.

On day two of CouchDB training you will focus on view patterns and queries and how to format documents and views from your database using the built-in list and show functionality. You will also learn about advanced techniques for working with CouchDB data, from consuming the changes feed, creating replication filters, document update handlers and database and document security.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you're a developer, or if you are a manager looking to get your team trained.

email us at [email protected] if you have any questions!

--Couchbase

We'll be working on a number of apps using GeoCouch as the backend. Put your ideas/notes on the wiki page

Come prepared to work on your projects or chip in on others'

• Have a local CouchDB (with GeoCouch installed) or Iriscouch account. Couchbase has Couch+GeoCouch binaries here
• Have couchapp installed (via virtualenv, pip)

Some projects we'll be working on:

• Heritage Trees map
• Portland Poetry Posts
• Map of Climbable Trees in Portland
• Yours

CouchConf is coming to Portland!

This one-day event is for any developer who wants to take a deeper dive into Couchbase NoSQL technology, learn where it’s headed and build really cool stuff. Join us for a day to find out what’s new with Couchbase and learn more about harnessing this powerful technology for your web and mobile applications.

Early bird Registration is now open!

If you wish to sponsor CouchConf Portland, please email [email protected].

Conference highlights:

Technology updates and a look ahead from Couchbase technologists. A technically rich agenda, packed with breakout sessions covering Couchbase Server, Couchbase Mobile, and related technologies. Q&A panel with Couchbase experts. Lunchtime lightning talks. An after party for mingling and networking!

Early bird registration: $50.00 Registration:$100.00

It's summertime in Portland! Rather than work our brains too hard in the heat, let's just get together, socialize, chat and show off anything we happen to be working on.

Meetup with us at the Lucky Lab on SE Hawethorne. Look for the Erlang laptop stickers!

We'll get back to having speakers in September.

Stay tuned for news about Erlang at OSCON.