Benjamin Young

Benjamin Young

Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Inventor and evangelist specializing in building and promoting Open Web Technologies…

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  • Digital Bazaar, Inc. Graphic

    Digital Bazaar, Inc.

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    Greenville, South Carolina Area

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    Greenville, South Carolina Area

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Education

Publications

  • Graph Database Goodness with LevelGraph

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  • Building Web Extensions Because You Can

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  • Documenting APIs when Preferences Matter

    HTTP Headers provide interesting ways of requests "preferences" from a Web server--content (media type) negotiation, language negotiation, etc. This article describes various attempts (OpenAPI/Swagger and RAML) to describe such HTTP-based preference expression...and where the API documentation tooling and industry still lacks capabilities to describe these features well.

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  • Sync Globally, Work Locally

    php|architect Magazine

    Offline data access is the Achilles’ Heel of the cloud. What happens when the power’s out? Or the service is down? Scary stuff if you don’t have the ability to synchronize your data locally, easily–and stay in sync. CouchDB offers a powerful replication system that allows you to move not only your data, but complete web apps to your local machine to keep things running smoothly. We’ll discuss the importance of replication, create a CouchApp to demonstrate it, and use PHP to keep the replication…

    Offline data access is the Achilles’ Heel of the cloud. What happens when the power’s out? Or the service is down? Scary stuff if you don’t have the ability to synchronize your data locally, easily–and stay in sync. CouchDB offers a powerful replication system that allows you to move not only your data, but complete web apps to your local machine to keep things running smoothly. We’ll discuss the importance of replication, create a CouchApp to demonstrate it, and use PHP to keep the replication running smoothly.

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  • Webcast: PHP and CouchDB

    O'Reilly Media

    PHP developers generally use MySQL, but the rise of NoSQL databases has opened up new options for creating web apps. CouchDB's unique replication feature set and easy API make it a great fit for PHP developers looking to move into a NoSQL database. This talk will cover the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP with and without helper libraries. We'll discuss some architecture approaches and briefly look at things to avoid when moving from an RDBMS to a Document Database such…

    PHP developers generally use MySQL, but the rise of NoSQL databases has opened up new options for creating web apps. CouchDB's unique replication feature set and easy API make it a great fit for PHP developers looking to move into a NoSQL database. This talk will cover the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP with and without helper libraries. We'll discuss some architecture approaches and briefly look at things to avoid when moving from an RDBMS to a Document Database such as CouchDB.

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  • WebExtensions 101

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Projects

  • BlueInk CMS

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    BlueInk Content Management System (CMS) focuses on usability and simplicity. Tasks that would take several clicks and page loads in other CMS's take far fewer in BlueInk. Login, editing, and content reorganization all happen while viewing the live web site.

    BlueInk is currently available as a Software-as-a-Service CMS for small to medium sized businesses. It can be customized for specific needs for larger business that may have more specific types of content.

    In addition to the…

    BlueInk Content Management System (CMS) focuses on usability and simplicity. Tasks that would take several clicks and page loads in other CMS's take far fewer in BlueInk. Login, editing, and content reorganization all happen while viewing the live web site.

    BlueInk is currently available as a Software-as-a-Service CMS for small to medium sized businesses. It can be customized for specific needs for larger business that may have more specific types of content.

    In addition to the Software-as-a-Service option, I'm actively rebuilding BlueInk on Apache CouchDB as a CouchApp built entirely of JavaScript (client and server side), HTML, and CSS. This rewrite is available under the Apache Foundation License 2.0.

    My goal is to change the way people work with information, and BlueInk on CouchDB has opened fascinating new options.

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  • InSync Mobile CRM

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    InSync Mobile CRM is a web-based product that integrates with the SyteLine ERP to provide visibility into customer information on the go.

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Sign Languages

    Limited working proficiency

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