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CouchDBExtension (Thursday, August 06, 2009) - I've recently started work on a new project named CouchDBExtension which is hosted here on codeplex. In short it's a data processing extension that allows you to use Apache's CouchDB databases as a data source in SQL Server Reporting Services. For those of you who are unfamiliar with CouchDB it's a schema-free, document-oriented database system with a REST JSON

C from erlang via linked-in driver (Wednesday, September 16, 2009) - Erlang truly is a useful language. It's fast, full-featured and elegant. Like all high-level languages, however, you sometimes need to access legacy or system code written in another language like, you guessed it, C. I came accross this situation recently when porting my webcrawler to erlang. Under pressure http:request proved to be unreliable when used in

A little bit o' Erlang (Sunday, August 23, 2009) - Although it's not the subject of this article I've been fooling around with CouchDB a bit lately. CouchDB is perhaps most well known for being written in Erlang, a functional language developed by Ericsson. All of the fiddling around really got me interested in actually hacking out some Erlang to evaluate any practical purpose it may have to me. I've messed