As some of you may know from the tweets I’ve been posting for nearly 3 weeks now, I was invited to attend the very first edition of the JumpInCamp organized by Microsoft in April 2010.

The goal of this camp was to get the European PHP community leaders together and learn about the new products and new ideas Microsoft are working on. For those of you who read about the Microsoft web developer summit that took place in Redmond in December 2009 you might think it was the same thing however you would be utterly wrong.

While the camp in Redmond was very informative and we are learnt a great deal of new features coming up with Microsoft, it was vastly different than the JumpinCamp in Zurich where the focus of the camp was to get the developers to interact with the actual Microsoft developers instead of only learning about new features. The point of the JumpinCamp was to get your hands dirty in code so we all got a few hours of lectures, then sat down and worked on either implementing those solutions into our respective Open Source projects or even discussed and raised concerns we might have regarding some of their products.

I thought it might be nice to share some of the projects I’ve started working on while I was over there and what I had interests in:
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Some of you know we are working with CouchDB quite intensively here at echolibre, and so I figured we might as well share a few of our notes, hickups, ideas, implementations, etc. So I  decided to make a series of short post on CouchDB (>= 0.10.0) and I would like to start with writing your first CouchDB view in Erlang.

Obviously, you have to make sure that you enabled native Erlang views. Make sure to read on how to enabled your Erlang views on the CouchDB wiki

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