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CouchDB and Me
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| by Damien Katz Follow 0 Followers on Jan 31, 2009 |
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Summary
In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more.

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Damien Katz has worked for Lotus, MySQL, IBM and is the creator of CouchDB. He blogs at http://damienkatz.net/ .

RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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Fantastic Presentation by Kent Fenwick

Inspirational! I loved it.

Thanks for making such cool software!
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Amazing by ismael Marin Cabrera

I really love this talk i want all my students to watch this great life example,

thank you Damien.
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Truly inspirational. by Manoj Waikar

Thanks for this 'straight from the heart' presentation. Wish you tons of good luck and success.
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from the heart... by andrew mcveigh

Excellent presentation, many thanks for sharing. The best inspirational presentation I've seen on programming.

I've also taken a few years out in the past (and still going) to work on something I believe in which led to me doing a phd. Two questions, if I may:

(1) how do you get by without the cameraderie of the office?
--> I really like hanging out with people at work. this sort of goes when i'm working on my own. A year is too long for me.

(2) how do you cope with the stress when the money gets low?
--> i find that even if i'm quite close to finishing something, if the money gets low I get too stressed and i have to get a job. This tends to derail me for 6mths or so.

Andrew
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Great by Julian Browne

I can only echo what others have already said about this presentation.

As one who's constantly bemoaning the lack of inventive spirit and passion in corporate software folk (mostly because it's seen as a money pot for the very douche bags/vapid bureaucrats that Damien talks about), it's heartening to hear this story. Not only that - I've played with couchdb and it really is cool and hopefully has a bright future.

Should be required watching for all. If you don't feel just a little bit like Damien from time to time, regardless of whether you sell your house to fund your dream, I'd suggest you're in the wrong field.

Nice one.

Julian
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Re: from the heart... by andrew mcveigh

>Two questions, if I may:

as an aside, both Damian and Laura were kind enough to answer my questions on Damien's blog.

Cheers,
Andrew
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Thanks by Sven H.

Simple presentation ! Catch me more than animated-to-dead and text-overloaded small recipes slides.
One of thew few presentation available here, I watched in one go to the end !
Interesting experience though, not all families would be willing to do this together (I guess).
Thanks
Sven
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Excellent Presentation, True and Inspriational by Amitabh Akolkar

Great Presentation from the heart.
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very cool by Lance Pollard

Thanks so much for this talk, we need to hear this stuff every now and then :). Keeps us pushing harder.
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