Watir

Watir

• Stands for Web Application Testing In Ruby
• Pronounced "water".
• Is a testing framework similar to Selenium.
• Uses OLE to interface with IE and take control of the session.

CouchDB

CouchDB

• Document based DB specifically created for the web.
• It is now an Apache project.
• Uses a REST API and it returns data as JSON. <--very cool
• Written originally in C++ but it has moved now to Erlang.
• Super scalable.
• from http://couchdb.apache.org/ "CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests"
• Uses JavaScript as a query language
• The Web based administration console/DB Manager is called 'Futon'.

Hadoop

Today I start a small experiment of mine. I'll randomly read a new tech world word that I didn't know before or that I just heard but never looked up. Hadoop

• Named after an elephant toy, built using Java ( the software not the toy :) )
• An Apache project for working with huge/massive amounts of data.
• Yahoo is one of the biggest contributors.
• Uses a distributed architecture.
• Inspired by Google File System and Google MapReduce. <- don't know what these are.