Thanks Ed. A
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4/10/2011, at 5:05 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Nice! > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: >> I made mention of this during my presentation at the Cassandra Summit >> back in July, but we're finally ready to release the source for >> Usergrid. This is a mobile platform stack built on top of Cassandra >> and using Hector and we're making the full source code available on >> GitHub. We'll be offering it as a cloud service as well, but we >> wanted to follow the WordPress model of having both self-hosted and >> self-serve options. >> >> Usergrid provides a bunch of cool features like activity streams, user >> management, and counter-based analytics as well as providing a very >> high-level fully indexed JSON-based data model via a REST API, so that >> you can unlock a lot of the power of Cassandra directly from >> Javascript. It's meant for mobile app developers who really want to >> just focus on their front-end development. Particularly cool is the >> double-clickable launcher app that fires up an embedded Cassandra >> server and makes running all this on your desktop a piece of cake. >> >> Our blog is at: http://blog.usergrid.com >> >> The code is up at: http://github.com/usergrid/stack >> >> Documentation is at: http://usergrid.github.com/docs >> >> Main website is: http://www.usergrid.com >> >> There's a mailing list set up for discussion at: >> http://groups.google.com/group/usergrid-user >> >> It's still a work-in-progress and there's a lot in there that still >> needs to be documented. >> >> Hope you'll check it out and find it interesting. Even if it's not >> something you'd have use of yourself, please forward this on to people >> you know who are trying to build data-rich mobile apps. >> >> Thanks >> >> Ed >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com
