I was listening to the latest FLOSS Weekly, and Randal was talking about CouchDB - which sounded pretty cool. It's a simple object database with a Rest interface. So, I went ahead and started building a Smalltalk interface to it. That was pretty easy - I've got the following commands working (I was noodling while watching "Eureka"):

Interface new getDatabases.
Interface new createDB: 'mydb'.  
Interface new getDatabaseInformation: 'mydb'
Interface new deleteDB: 'myDB'.  

To try it out (or chip in), just load the CouchDB package from the public Store.

If you're on a Mac, the best way to get started with CouchDB is CouchDBX.

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