Comments for John P. Wood

Comment on Slides From My Intro To CouchDB Talk by John Wood

John Wood — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:09:47 +0000

Thanks Ryan. I’m glad you found it informative.

Comment on Slides From My Intro To CouchDB Talk by Ryan Briones

Ryan Briones — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:22:37 +0000

Thanks John! I actually learned a lot from your presentation and I am excited again about using CouchDB on a real project :)

Comment on CouchDB: The Last Mile by John Wood

John Wood — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:37:39 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Andy.

Comment on CouchDB: The Last Mile by AndyB

AndyB — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:40 +0000

John,

that was the best series of articles about “CouchDB in real life” that I have came across so far. Thank you very much to sharing your experience in such a detailed, clear and concise way!

Comment on CouchDB: A Case Study by NoSQL – Non-relational databases « Lars Barkman

NoSQL – Non-relational databases « Lars Barkman — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:21:57 +0000

[...] & Blogs CouchDB: A Case Study – “This is part 1 in a series of posts that describe our investigation into CouchDB as [...]

Comment on CouchDB: A Case Study by Massive CouchDB Brain Dump – Matt Woodward’s posterous « mnml

Massive CouchDB Brain Dump – Matt Woodward’s posterous « mnml — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:21:59 +0000

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Comment on Getting ‘rake test’ Running with Rails 3 and MongoDB by Ray Krueger

Ray Krueger — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:42:45 +0000

Yeah shoulda is a nogo unfortunately. If you play with Authlogic you’ll need to pull that from github. Those are the two problems I had

Comment on CouchDB: Views – The Advantages by John Wood

John Wood — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:10:32 +0000

@anon

Yes. I still need to use “stale=ok” even though I am only adding data once a day. This is because it takes a while to add the data to CouchDB via that batch job, and I don’t want CouchDB rebuilding the index multiple times during the process data import process. This could happen if somebody tried to access one of the views while I was adding data to CouchDB.

Comment on CouchDB: Views – The Advantages by anon

anon — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:45:44 +0000

Do you still need to use “stale=ok” even though data is only added once a day? Or you probably add other data throughout the day.

Comment on What Will It Take To Dethrone The iPhone? by John Wood

John Wood — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:54:00 +0000

@Drew

I agree that the web will be the mobile application platform going forward, for the same reasons you mention. As if HTML5 wasn’t enough (and I don’t think it is right now), the W3C is hard at work on a new standard (http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-dap-api-reqs-20091015/) that aims to make even more functionality currently available to only native apps available via the mobile web, including access to the device’s calendar, contacts, camera, and more.

Comment on What Will It Take To Dethrone The iPhone? by Drew

Drew — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:20:25 +0000

I think a comparable feature set combined with the rise of mobile web apps will be the great democratizer. As Android grows in popularity, companies will want another version of their iPhone app for that platform — only now they’ve doubled their development costs.

It seems inevitable that the economics will make mobile web application development more attractive; why pay to build and support multiple versions of a native app that is dependent on someone else’s review and release when you can build a web app, release updates at any time, and make minor adjustments for devices? With HTML5, the browser has access to many of the phone’s features, so the difference between a native and mobile app is blurred. The hurdle there will be getting users less focused on the app store.

Comment on Standup Timer 1.1 Released by Jeff Judge

Jeff Judge — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:43:33 +0000

You are a force to be reckoned with. I just wish you’d let me sit down more often.

Comment on CouchDB: The Last Mile by Paginating documents with couchrest and will_paginate | Open Sourcery

Paginating documents with couchrest and will_paginate | Open Sourcery — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:34:27 +0000

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Comment on Know Thy Customer – Why Developers Should Do Customer Support by Stephen Mullins

Stephen Mullins — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:24:47 +0000

Interesting idea having developers own customer support for a few weeks. I like what Yapta does which have all developers subscribe to the feedback mailing list. We get praises and complaints from that list. It really does help us stay connected with the users of the site, and better understand their needs.

We still have a customer support group that fields the incoming messages, but its invaluable to have access to actual customer feedback, both for what works for them as well as what doesn’t.

Comment on CouchDB: Views – The Challenges by John Wood

John Wood — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:33:51 +0000

Thanks Daniel, for the props on the article and the tip.

Comment on CouchDB: Views – The Challenges by Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:15:27 +0000

Hey man, I’m really digging the article. So to return the favor, one way to help speed up views is to place the view cache on a separated set of physical disks than the DB store.

Comment on My first Gnome Do plugin by Martin

Martin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:16:15 +0000

Thanks for your quick answer. Unfortunately I do neither have experience with SOAP programming nor a development environment setup.

Merry Christmas!

Comment on My first Gnome Do plugin by John Wood

John Wood — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:50:16 +0000

Hi Martin. It’s been a while since I’ve used Gnome-Do, so it very well could be an issue with the plugin. Shortly after writing it, I switched jobs from a Linux shop running Confluence, to a Mac shop running MediaWiki. Based on the error message you posted, it looks like web service API may have changed in Confluence 3.x.

We recently switched from MediaWiki to Confluence, so I can try reproducing the error. However, if there is an error, I’m not sure I’ll be able to fix it any time soon, as I don’t have a development environment setup to modify the plugin.

If you have some development experience, and feel like taking a stab at it, you can find the plugin code at https://code.launchpad.net/~do-plugins, and some instructions on how to get started with Gnome-Do plugins at http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Getting_started_with_writing_plugins.

If this is being caused by a change in the Confluence web service API, the fix should simply involve re-generating the ConfluenceSoapServiceService class based on the new WSDL, and possibly changing the plugin code to address any name or parameter changes in the API. The plugin only uses one method on the web service API…the search method.

I’ll email you if I’m able to find out anything more.

Comment on My first Gnome Do plugin by Martin

Martin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:38:50 +0000

First of all thanks for the plugin! I tried to use it with Confluence 3.0.1 and Gnome-Do 0.8.3 but I get the following error:
[Info 15:31:34.898] [Confluence] Unable to search Confluence: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The AXIS engine could not find a target service to invoke! targetService is confluenceservice-v1
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReceiveResponse (System.Net.WebResponse response, System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapClientMessage message, System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapExtension[] extensions) [0x00000]
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke (System.String method_name, System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000]
at ConfluenceSoapServiceService.login (System.String in0, System.String in1) [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) ConfluenceSoapServiceService:login (string,string)
at Confluence.ConfluenceSearchAction.Perform (IEnumerable`1 items, IEnumerable`1 modItems) [0x00000]

Is it possible your plugin is not compatible with Confluence 3.x or is the problem on my side.

Thanks!

Comment on Overriding Java methods in Groovy for unit testing by John Wood

John Wood — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:38:32 +0000

Hi Kelly. Sorry, but I haven’t done a whole lot of Groovy lately, so I’m afraid I can’t answer your question off the top of my head. Stack Overflow is a great place to ask questions like this.