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Non-Running CouchDB Testsuite

By simon | Published: July 23, 2010
Just updated my CouchDB install guide as I discovered a problem with the install. Mostly my own fault for not checking the testsuite immediately after I installed but when I came to do that today, after discovering that none of my views worked, and even a temporary view was causing the CPU load on the [...]
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Beginning CouchDB Errata

By Simon | Published: July 22, 2010
Whilst I am on the subject of CouchApps, there is a typo in code listing 10-4 on page 171 of Beginning CouchDB which causes the javascript to not work. Specifically, if you get a message along the following lines in your browser’s error console: $.CouchApp is not a function You can fix this by  making an edit [...]
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CouchDB from Src How-To

By Simon | Published: July 22, 2010
Well this was more effort than it should have been. I have been dabbling with Erlang for a while, and after struggling with MySQL, Tomcat and JDBC I was looking for an alternative web-app stack. CouchDB looks to be perfect, although sufficiently new that there is not a lot of documentation, both of the books [...]
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First Steps With Tor

By simon | Published: November 15, 2009
I finally got around to getting Tor working on one of my workstations. The process is quite simple to set up to enable anonymous browsing. My workstation is running Ubuntu so I firstly had to install the Debian/Ubuntu APT repository (NB. More detailed instructions for steps 1-3 are available from the Tor Project Debian/Ubuntu Installation Instructions [...]
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Synchronising the Clocks on Linux Boxen

By Simon | Published: November 12, 2009
The rsync program relies upon accurate clocks on the various machines that it is synchronising between because it uses the modification timestamps to determine which is newer and therefore which was more recently altered. So as the first stage in getting a distributed and bi-directional rsync system up and running so as to synchronise my [...]
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