Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Getting Started with Oracle Container Cloud Service
Oracle Container Cloud Service is Oracle’s entry into the world of managed container service. There are plenty of existing options: Docker for AWS or Azure Amazon Elastic Container Service Google Container Engine Azure Container Service DC/OS by Mesosphere OpenShift by Red Hat...
Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 1: Data Modeling
In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as compared to Couchbase Server. In three parts, I’m going to...
Integration Tests and your Couchbase Application
Proper integration tests require a complete setup of your infrastructure. And this can be a litle hard to put in place sometimes, especially when you need to support your developer lapop, your CI node, or any other machine where you...
Video Tutorial for Creating a URL Shortener with Node.js and N1QL
Not too long ago I wrote a lengthy tutorial on how to use Node.js and Couchbase to create a URL shortener. This tutorial used N1QL for querying the data. To compliment that writeup I’ve gone ahead and created a video...
Syncing Couchbase Documents Between Mobile Platforms and Devices with NativeScript and Angular
Over the past few days we’ve been exploring how to create a simple Android and iOS application using NativeScript, Angular and Couchbase. First we saw how to use Couchbase for basic key-value operations and then we saw how to query...
Using PouchDB and Couchbase NoSQL in Your Node.js Web Application
One of my preferred technologies for developing web applications is Node.js. I do a lot of JavaScript development, so it is another piece to fit in my development puzzle. Not too long ago I wrote a guide for using Couchbase...
Querying for Couchbase Documents in a NativeScript Angular Mobile Application
I recently wrote about using Couchbase as a key-value store in a NativeScript iOS and Android application built with Angular. In this example we saw how to collect user profile information to be saved or loaded from Couchbase on the...
Building a Google Chrome Extension with Couchbase and Angular 2
Have you ever used a Chrome extension in your Google Chrome web browser? I personally use a ton of them and some of my favorites include ColorZilla and Google Hangouts. Have you ever wanted to make your own Chrome extension,...
Create a Desktop App that Syncs using Electron, PouchDB, Ionic 2 and Couchbase
I’ve been on a role when it comes to JavaScript and Couchbase. Over the past few weeks I’ve been creating content revolving around the Angular 2 framework, the JavaScript library PouchDB, and Ionic Framework for mobile. What I haven’t explored...
Key-Value Operations in Couchbase Mobile via NativeScript and Angular
I’m a huge fan of mobile Android and iOS application development and an even bigger fan of using Angular to develop those applications. A while back I wrote about using Couchbase in a NativeScript application as well as using Couchbase...
Windows Server 2016 Using VirtualBox – Getting Ready for Docker
Windows Server 2016 was announced a few weeks ago. I recommend you download the Windows 2016 Server Evaluation version. This blog is the first part of a multi-part series. The first part will show how to install Windows Server 2016...
Using Couchbase Mobile in a Web Application with only Angular 2 and PouchDB
Last year I wrote an article that explained how to synchronize between platforms and Couchbase with only AngularJS and PouchDB. Back then AngularJS was booming and probably my favorite framework of all time. A year later AngularJS is still around,...