Category Archives: General

Ideas and Facts from scotland.js in Edinburgh

Test Driven Development I have been one of the lucky attendants of scotland.js in Edinburgh recently. It was a really nice & informative conference, thanks to all people that made it possible. I did really like to see that TDDaaa

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ArangoDB 1.3.0 released

Features and Improvements The following list shows in detail which features have been added or improved in ArangoDB 1.3. ArangoDB 1.3 also contains several bugfixes that are not listed here. Changes to the Datafile Structure As the datafile structure hasaaa

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Foxx Screencast: Part 2

It has taken some time, but now part 2 of the Foxx Screencast is available. I talk about some more advanced topics of Foxx and also plans for the future.

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ArangoDB 1.3.alpha1 and the first Foxx Screencast

Starting today you can install the first Alpha of the upcoming release of ArangoDB version 1.3. Some of the new features are: ArangoDB Foxx: A lightweight way to define APIs directly on top of ArangoDB Traversals: Define traversals to exploreaaa

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Foxx – a lightweight Javascript application framework for ArangoDB

For the last months we have been working on Foxx – a brand new Javascript framework on top of the upcoming version of the free and open source NoSQL database ArangoDB. Foxx allows you to build APIs directly on topaaa

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Auto-increment values in ArangoDB

The most recent versions of ArangoDB offer more detailed control over what values will be auto-generated for the _key and _id attributes of documents. They also allow using predictable auto-increment sequences.

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Feature Preview: Using CoffeeScript in ArangoDB

In my blog post about npm packages, I tried to use underscore for ArangoDB. I found that the easiest way to archive this, is using the nodes package manager NPM. Node packages and modules follow the Common.JS specification, so theyaaa

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ArangoDB 1.2.0 Released

We are proud to announce the release of ArangoDB 1.2.0. You can find an overview of the new features in these blog posts: New Features in ArangoDB 1.2 Simplifications in ArangoDB 1.2 API changes in ArangoDB 1.2 If you areaaa

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Feature Preview: Using NPM packages for ArangoDB

ArangoDB follows the Common.JS specification for modules. However, it would be very convenient, if there was an easy way to install a package like “underscore.js”. These package are, for instance, available using NPM. There is a draft for packages onaaa

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Simplifications in ArangoDB 1.2

The upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will provide several improvements and fixes. Apart from the additional features the new version provides, the following changes might also be very interesting for users and driver maintainers:

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