A Few New NoSQL Helper Libraries

I've been working on a few new libraries lately that focus on providing functional wrappers around various NoSQL options.

FSharpCouch:

FSharpCouch is something that I wrote about a little over two years ago. At the time, it was more of an educational exercise, but I have since revised it and found aspects of it to be useful. This is now available on NuGet as package ID FSharpCouch.

Here's an example:

	type Person = {
	FirstName : string
	LastName : string
	}
	let couchUrl = "http://localhost:5984"
	let databaseName = "people"
	let result = { FirstName = "John"; LastName = "Doe" }
	|> createDocument couchUrl databaseName
	let createdPerson = getDocument<Person> couchUrl databaseName result.id

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You can find additional examples and the full source at https://github.com/dmohl/FSharpCouch.

MongoFs:

MongoFs currently has a primary focus on function composition as it relates to setting up the MongoDB client aspects of server, database, and collection. It simply wraps functions around the necessary methods of the C# Mongo Driver and auto opens the encompassing module.

Here's an example:

	let dbName = "SomeName"
	let collectionName = "SomeName"
	type Person = {
	mutable _id : ObjectId
	mutable FirstName : string
	mutable LastName : string
	}
	createLocalMongoServer()
	|> getMongoDatabase dbName
	|> getMongoCollection<Person> collectionName
	{ _id = ObjectId.GenerateNewId(); FirstName = "John"; LastName = "Doe" }
	|> people.Insert |> ignore
	let person = people.FindOne()

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You can get it from NuGet as package ID MongoFs and find more examples and source at https://github.com/dmohl/MongoFs.

CoffeeScript Presentation Now Available on InfoQ

The presentation that I did at Code PaLOUsa entitled CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar is now available on InfoQ at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/CoffeeScript-Good-Bold-and-with-Sugar.

You can find an HTML version of the slides here and various examples on my GitHub.