Recording of Michael Dirolf on MongoDB @ E-VAN 07 June 2010

We all very much enjoyed Michael Dirolf’s presentation on MongoDB. For those who missed it, the recording is now available on Vimeo:

Michael Dirolf on MongoDB @ E-VAN 07 June 2010

The original file that we used for uploading can be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better. It’s also possible to   download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

If you got infected by MongoDB and want to learn more, then the European MongoDB conferences are an excellent opportunity. There’s one scheduled in the UK on June 18 and one in France on June 21. The nice folks at 10gen provided us with a discount code that will give all E-VAN sympathizers a 20% discount at registration (use discount code “evan”). We hope you will enjoy one of those events as well. 

Details of the next E-VAN presentation will be posted very soon.

Recording of J. Chris Anderson on CouchDB @ E-VAN 26 May 2010

J. Chris Anderson did an excellent introductory presentation on CouchDB. For those who missed it, the recording is now available on Vimeo:

J. Chris Anderson on CouchDB @ E-VAN 26 May 2010

The original file that we used for uploading can be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better. It’s also possible to   download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

Hope to see you all at the next session on MongoDB.

European VAN on MongoDB on 07 June 2010

We’re happy to announce that Michael Dirolf agreed to do a presentation on MongoDB as part of our series on NoSQL. MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database written in C++. A highlight of the features are full index support, replication, high availability, auto-sharding, map/reduce, gridFS etc. … . Michael is a software engineer at 10gen working on MongoDB, so we’re pretty sure that he’s got many things to say about it.

Here are the details:

Start Time: Monday, June 07, 2010 07:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Monday, June 07, 2010 08:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

(*) 08:00 PM UK, 09:00 PM Brussels, 02:00 PM EST and 12:00 Noon PST. For time zone arithmetic, you can consult the world clock site or use this time zone converter.

Make sure that you don’t miss this excellent learning opportunity and we hope to see you there.

European VAN on CouchDB on 26 May 2010

The next session in our series on NoSQL is going to be a presentation on CouchDB. CouchDB is a scalable, schema-free, open source document-oriented database written in Erlang. None other than J. Chris Anderson is going to do this talk. He’s a CouchDB committer, co-author of the book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide and a director of couch.io, offering commercial hosting, support, consulting, and custom development. We guess that he’s in a pretty good position to tell us more about CouchDB.

Here are the details:

Start Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 07:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 08:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

(*) 08:00 PM UK, 09:00 PM Brussels, 02:00 PM EST and 12:00 Noon PST. For time zone arithmetic, you can consult the world clock site or use this time zone converter.

Make sure that you don’t miss this excellent learning opportunity and we hope to see you there.

Recording of Neil Robbins on NoSQL @ E-VAN 26 April 2010

Neil Robbins did a splendid job introducing us to the concepts and main ideas behind NoSQL. For those who missed it, the recording is now available on Vimeo:

Neil Robbins on NoSQL @ E-VAN 26 April 2010

The original file that we used for uploading can be downloaded from Vimeo as well. So you just have to log on (or register if you don’t have an account) and download the original recording in the right down corner. The quality of the original recording is slightly better. It’s also possible to   download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

Details of the next E-VAN presentation will be posted very soon.

Next European VAN on 26 April 2010

Neil Robbins agreed to do an introductory presentation on the ideas behind NoSQL, what its all about, why its important and where it can be applied. This is going to be the first session in a series on NoSQL. We’re planning to do a couple of other talks on a variety of document databases, key/value stores, etc. during the course of this year.

Here are the details:

Start Time: Tuesday, April 26, 2010 07:00 PM GMT*

End Time: Tuesday, April 26, 2010 08:30 PM GMT

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

VAN Calendar: http://www.virtualaltnet.com/Home/Calendar

(*) 08:00 PM UK, 09:00 PM Brussels, 02:00 PM EST and 12:00 Noon PST. For time zone arithmetic, you can consult the world clock site or use this time zone converter.

If you want to learn what the fuzz on NoSQL is all about, then don’t miss this opportunity. Hope to see you there.

Recording of Discussion on Software Craftsmanship @ E-VAN 06 April 2010

I hope everyone enjoyed last night’s discussion on Software Craftsmanship with Robert C. Martin, David Starr and Mark Nijhof. Unfortunately Corey Haines and Scott Bellware couldn’t join us due to issues with Office Live Meeting. We’re going to re-evaluate whether there are better alternatives to Office Live Meeting that at the very least provide a cross-platform solution.

For those who missed this discussion, the recording is now available on Vimeo:

Discussion on Software Craftsmanship @ E-VAN 06 April 2010

You can also download the original OLM recording here. Keep in mind that this one will only be available for one year.

We tried to cover as many questions as possible. In case you’ve got some more questions regarding this topic, you can always post them on the Software Craftsmanship Google Group.

Details of the next E-VAN presentation will be posted very soon.