In this developerWorks article, I explore the concepts behind Apache CouchDB – an open source, document-oriented database management system. CouchDB uses a RESTful JSON API and JavaScript views to interact with and report on the data stored in the database. Unlike the relational model, the model CouchDB is built on is designed specifically for use in document-oriented web applications such as blogs, wikis and discussion forums. This... 

Back in February an article I wrote, “Implementing Enterprise 2.0″ was published on IBM developerWorks (read the blog entry about this article here). Around the same time as I wrote this piece I also wrote a piece titled “Utilizing Web 2.0 in Business”. This article was published on developerWorks today – and here is the abstract: While Web 2.0 has been a huge hit with consumers, some businesses have been much... 

Many people (myself included) often post an update to Twitter when publishing a new blog post. WordPress (the blog software I use) and most other blogging platforms include a nice feature that allows you to schedule blog posts to be published at a particular date/time. Wouldn’t it be great if we could also schedule our tweets so that they are posted when our blog post is published? There are countless other potential uses for scheduled... 

Ireland has a strong community of bloggers, who are not afraid to voice their opinions and post honest commentary about a wide spectrum of topics – including but not limited to – politics, current affairs, consumer issues, technology, software development, business and enterprise. This community is a very social one, and those involved are not afraid to interact with one another – whether it be by means of commenting on...