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We are pleased to announce a new key member of the Mobile Couchbase team. Jens Alfke is a top notch dog in Cocoa development. He wrote the wiki page on Signed Documents<\/a> back in the day, and before that he worked on iChat at Apple.\u00a0 Jens also spent time working on Google Chrome and at Rockmelt before joining us.<\/p>\n

Mobile Couchbase has been a community-driven process so far. Now that we have Jens on board, we will be able to accelerate development on all fronts. Expect to hear more from him as the project grows.<\/p>\n

–Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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