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My book “Beginning CouchDB” is now available in the United States, and should be available internationally in the coming days. The final manuscript comes in at exactly 300 pages, and features everything you need to know to get started with the Apache CouchDB database – from installing it on Mac OS X or Linux to creating applications that work with CouchDB data using JavaScript, Python and Ruby. The following are links to... 

I recently posted a short blog entry about my forthcoming book on CouchDB. A lot of you have been asking me for more information about the book, so I decided to put together a page with much more detail about it. The book is titled “Beginning CouchDB” and is going to be published in December 2009 by Apress Publishing. The printed version of the book will sell for a RRP of $34.99 in the United States, with the e-Book selling for... 

I’m delighted to announce that I have signed a book deal with Apress publishing (the black and yellow techie books). The book is on Apache CouchDB, an exciting document-oriented database management system that is in active development. I was approached by Apress about the prospect of writing a book on CouchDB after my article “Exploring CouchDB” was published on IBM developerWorks back in March 2009. The book is coming...