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Non-Running CouchDB Testsuite

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

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

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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Argumentative-on-the-go

Most of us experience that moment of having forgotten all of the good arguments that we need to respond to a given point raised during a discussion. Moments after conceding the point it all come flooding back, but too late. To the rescue comes the Skeptical Science iPhone app, well to the rescue of iPhoners anyway. [...]
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Araucaria on OS X

There appears to be something wrong with the script included in the Araucaria install images which means that the classpath is not set properly to run Araucaria. This means that although all of the software is included, the JVM cannot find all of the extra jars or other items that the software relies upon to [...]
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