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Inaugural LAxML Meetup: Richard Winslow

Date: 2013-05-08
Time: 7:00
Location: Zynx Health Inc
10880 Wilshire Boulevard Ste. 400,
Los Angeles, CA , Los Angeles, CA
Topic: XML
Presenter: Richard WInslow

Please join other NoSQL-ers in Los Angeles, as Richard Winslow from Zynx Health will be speaking on how XML fits into the NoSQL world.  From the meetup site itself:

Agile developers favor NoSQL-based architectures because they’re easy to use, they scale well and they’re less resistant to change. XML should be a prominent player in the NoSQL world because the XML ecosystem, laxmlbuilt out over decades, offers many kinds of leverage for handling complex data that are mostly absent from the still-maturing NoSQL world. But agile developers don’t consider XML when they think about NoSQL because XML-based enterprise teams tend to use those tools in very non-agile ways, making XML seem just as brittle and resistant to change as relational databases are. This presentation makes the case for XML as a powerful NoSQL option for applications with complex data structures and business logic, and describes a set of approaches, culled from our own experiences at Zynx Health, that make XML-based development perfectly agile and competent at managing change.

Ryan Dew Wins 2013 MVC Award!

by Eric Bloch

MarkLogic bestows the MVC (Most Valuable Coder) Award on the member of our community who, in the past year, has most helped promote our community. This person

  • Uses their experience to help guide others. 
  • Provides honest feedback to MarkLogic. 
  • Embodies our culture of accuracy, performance, and competitiveness. 
  • Shares working code 

We announced at MarkLogic World last week, that this year's winner is Ryan Dew! Ryan makes his thoughts known over on at Max Dew Point where he has thoughtfully and frequently posted up tips and code snippets throughout the past year. As you can see below, we've inscribed his name on the official "Hard Core Angle Brackets" trophy here in San Carlos, under the previous years' recipients, Rob Whitby and Geert Josten.

hardcore angle brackets inscription

MarkLogic World is Next Week! Check out the Lightning Talk Room

by Eric Bloch

BaconWe've been busy organizing festivities for MarkLogic World next week in Las Vegas.  There's all sorts of lightning talk goodness headed your way as you can see below. And, we have some tasty treats planned as well (can you smell them?)

You can find the full schedule and stay up to date with our mobile (web) app. You can bookmark it at mlw13.marklogic.com (built on MarkLogic, with code at GitHub).

Tuesday
  • Client Connectors via the REST API - Tuesday 1:30 
    • Chris Cieslinski - Experiences with Node.JS and the MarkLogic REST API 
    • Adam Fowler - A Node.JS connector for MarkLogic
    • Mike Wooldridge -  Easy MarkLogic Applications with PHP
  • Showing off your data  - Tuesday 2:30 
    • David Lee - Advanced JSON Transformations
    • David Lee - Getting data from MarkLogic into Excel
    • Scott Brooks - Using HighCharts and MarkLogic
  • Semantics - Tues 3:50PM 
    • Micah Dubinko - Building Semantic Applications 
    • John Snelson - Introduction to SPARQL in MarkLogic
    • John Snelson - Inside the RDF Triple Index
Wednesday
  • XQuery Hour - Wed 10:30 
    • Jason Hunter - XQuery Gotchas 
    • John Snelson - Modelling Application Data in XQuery 

  • Search with MarkLogic - Wed 1PM
    • Andrew  Wanczowski - An Introduction to Search Visualization Using NYC Open Data
    • Beverly Jamison - Correct and Consumable Answers to Complex Questions 
    • William Thompson - Search Intelligence and MarkLogic Search API 
  • Operational Infrastructure - Wed 2PM 
    • Aaron Rosenbaum - Storage for MarkLogic 101
    • Aaron Rosenbaum - Running MarkLogic on VMWare
    • Haitao Wu - Rebalancing Clusters
  • Operational Tools - Wed 3:10PM 
    • Clark Richey - Point in time recovery
    • Norm Walsh - Config Management Update
    • Geert Josten - Automate Your Deployments
Thursday
  • Practical Advice from MarkLogic Developers - Thurs 8:30AM 

    • Damon Feldman - MarkLogic in Message-oriented and Service-oriented Architectures
    • David Erickson  - Rapid Prototyping Patterns with MarkLogic Server
    • James Clippinger - Data Provenance in MarkLogic

  • Inside MarkLogic: Search - Thurs 9:30AM 
    • Mary Holstege - Field and Path indexing in MarkLogic: your path to Big Data Search
    • Fei Xue - Understanding and Optimizing Search Queries in MarkLogic
    • Mary Holstege - Customizing Tokenization 

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