You're welcome. I also hang out in the couchdb-dev channel for around 1-3hrs if you get stuck!
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Dulanga Sashika <wadsash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thank you very much for the quick reply. I will go through the guidelines > and contact you if I have any issue with them. > > Thank you > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Robert Kowalski <r...@kowalski.gd> wrote: > >> Hi Dulanga, >> >> glad you found your way to the CouchDB mailing list. Welcome :) >> >> CouchDB is a database written in Erlang with an HTTP API - that makes >> it a great fit for web applications that don't need a server side >> layer with a database driver in between. Our Project Fauxton (like a >> modern PHP MyAdmin) makes use of that fact. >> >> Many of us hang out in freenode in #couchdb-dev including myself. >> Whenever you get stuck, feel free to ask - if no one is online (e.g. I >> was travelling this week) feel free to ask on the dev ML. >> >> We are all happy to help each other in the project :) >> >> If you are using windows: I am not a Windows expert - you will >> probably have to use a bash emulator like "git bash" to boot the dev >> environment. >> >> Getting started: >> >> For this project you will need to install at least CouchDB 1.x, an >> Ubuntu package (with installation instructions) is at >> https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/stable >> >> Additionally you need to install Node.js 0.10 or 0.12 (install from >> https://nodejs.org) >> >> Booting Fauxton and first steps (type without the $): >> >> booting CouchDB: >> $ sudo couchdb >> >> in another terminal, clone the admin interface: >> $ git clone https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton >> >> go to Fauxton: >> $ cd couchdb-fauxton >> >> install dependencies: >> $ npm install >> $ npm install -g grunt grunt-cli >> >> boot the app: >> $ grunt dev >> >> Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000 - you should >> see a red/gray/black interface >> >> >> That was a lot of input and especially if you are using Linux the >> first time and followed the instructions you have archived a lot! >> >> As first step, try to create a database and a document now using the >> web interface (PS we are happy about any usability feedback). :) >> >> I think you have your dev environment for CouchDB ready now. >> >> What's next: >> If everything works we will take a look at Fauxtons code structure and >> how it works. We will also talk about the features of the dashboard. >> Let's find a date for a chat after you took a first look how Fauxton >> looks like. >> >> We are having our weekly meeting this Wednesday, 20:00GMT >> (http://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2015-03-14/20:00) in IRC on freenode >> (see >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAJ1bcfEKOh4nvoxUqvcAcUFgg96w-JqHEefpi%2BWzazKFUPXNCg%40mail.gmail.com%3E >> ) >> . Feel free to join us! I will be around 1hr before if you want to >> chat with me before. >> >> >> Looking forward to work with you, >> Robert >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Dulanga Sashika <wadsash...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am Dulanga Sashika and I am a final year undergraduate student at >> > Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Moratuwa, >> Sri >> > Lanka. I am really interested in java, java script, web applications, >> > algorithms, data mining and machine learning. I have 6 months of training >> > experience at Proavos (pvt) Ltd. and in there I worked on a web >> application >> > that used java, JEE and Spring Framework. My final year project also a >> web >> > related application and I used same technologies I mentioned above for >> > that. I am really interested in this project because I have a good >> > experience with web applications and I love work with javascript. I am >> > looking forward to contribute to this project in this summer. I like to >> > know more detail about this project and if you can, please guide me to >> > start working on this project. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > W. A. Dulanga Sashika, >> > Undergraduate Student, >> > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >> > University of Moratuwa. >> > > > > -- > W. A. Dulanga Sashika, > Undergraduate Student, > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > University of Moratuwa.
