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release-notes/riak-community-0.5.md

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 * [Documentation](#documenation)
 * [Meetups](#meetups)
 * [Talks, Slide Decks, and Other Preso](#talks-slide-decks-and-other-presos)
-* [Other Awesome Things Riak Users Did](#other-awesome-things-riak-users-did)
+* [Other Awesome Things The Community Did](#other-awesome-things-the-community-did)
 * [New Known Production Deployments](#new-known-production-deployments)
 
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 ### Blog Posts and Podcasts 
 
+* Russell Brown wrote [a blog post](http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/07/02/folsom-backed-stats-riak-1-2/) about the new stats code that is shipping with Riak 1.2. [**July 2**]
+* Mathias Meyer [wrote a blog post](http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/7/5/six-ish-months-of-ebook-sales-riak-handbook.html) about his experience selling the Riak Handbook. [**July 5**]
+* Ray Jenkins wrote [a blog post](http://blog.boundary.com/2012/07/09/reusable-patterns-for-riak-in-scala/) discussing riak-scala-dao, a simple, reusable persistence layer for Riak, written in Scala. [**July 9**]
+* The team at GoGrid [wrote a blog post](http://blog.gogrid.com/2012/07/09/create-a-basho-riak-cluster-on-gogrid/) explaining how to setup a Riak cluster on GoGrid. [**July 9**]
+* Lei Gu [wrote a blog post](http://2rdscreenretargeting.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-we-chose-riak-as-persistence.html) about why he and his team are going with Riak. [**July 10**]
+* OJ Reeves [released](http://buffered.io/posts/webmachine-erlydtl-and-riak-part-5/) the long-awaited fifth installment to his Riak, Webmachine, and Erly DTL blog series. [**July 10**]
+* Lei Gu [wrote up some details](http://2rdscreenretargeting.blogspot.com/2012/07/riak-java-client-distilled.html) on working with the Riak Java Client.
 * Scott Leberknight [wrote a brief introduction to Riak](http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/brief-introduction-riak) and the Ruby client. [**July 12**]
+* DevOps Angle [posted a quick blog](http://devopsangle.com/2012/07/12/nosql-database-religion-comparing-riak-to-others/) about the Riak Comparisons on our wiki. [**July 12**]
+* Shai Rosenfeld [wrote a blog post](http://shairosenfeld.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/riak-shim/) about the riak-shim code he, mkb, and EngineYard released. [**July 13** ]
+* Sean Cribbs [put together some details](http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/07/18/Protobuffs-in-Riak-1-2/) on what's coming to the Protocol Buffers interface in Riak 1.2.[**July 18**] 
+* Charles Gildawie [released a post](http://nosqlsolution.blogspot.com/2012/07/fun-with-riak.html) about his first impressions of Riak. [**July 23**]
+* Jeremy Ong [put together a post](http://www.jeremyong.com/blog/2012/07/23/secondary-indices-in-riak-with-erlang/) about working with Secondary Indices and the Erlang client. [**July 23**]
+* James Governor of RedMonk [wrote a quick post](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2012/07/25/basho-comes-to-shoreditch-a-tech-city-and-redmonk-story/) about Basho's new office in London. [**July 25**]
+* Rodrigo de Castro wrote three blog posts about Riak in July. The first was called [Understanding Vector Clocks](http://architects.dzone.com/articles/understanding-vector-clocks). [**July 25**]
+* Rodrigo also [wrote up some details](http://architects.dzone.com/articles/how-use-precommit-hook-riak) about using Pre-commit Hooks. [**July 26**]
+* Rodrigo's last post was [a high-level overview](http://architects.dzone.com/articles/why-i-think-riak-great-nosql) of why he likes Riak. [**July 30**]
 
-* The team at GoGrid [wrote a blog post](http://blog.gogrid.com/2012/07/09/create-a-basho-riak-cluster-on-gogrid/) explaining how to setup a Riak cluster on GoGrid. [**July 9**]
+### Documentation 
 
-* Ray Jenkins wrote [a blog post](http://blog.boundary.com/2012/07/09/reusable-patterns-for-riak-in-scala/) discussing riak-scala-dao, a simple, reusable persistence layer for Riak, written in Scala. [**July 9**]
+* We added a [Riak and Couchbase comparison](http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-Couchbase.html) to the Riak Wiki. [**July 10**]
+* We added a [Riak and HBase comparison](http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-HBase.html). [**July 11**]
+* We added a [Riak and CouchDB comparison](http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-CouchDB.html).
+* The [Client Libraries page](http://wiki.basho.com/Client-Libraries.html) got a nice face lift courtesy of Sean Cribbs. [**July 15**]
+* A [Searching and Aggregating Data](http://wiki.basho.com/Searching-and-Aggregating-Data.html) section was added to the wiki. (**July 20**) 
 
-### Documentation 
 
 ### Meetups
 
-* Artur Bergman of Fastly and Dave Dawson of MIG discussed performance in distribued systems at the [second London Riak Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/riak-london/events/69174012/). [**July 5**]
+* Artur Bergman of Fastly and Dave Dawson of MIG discussed performance in distributed systems at the [second London Riak Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/riak-london/events/69174012/). [**July 5**]
 
 ### Talks, Slide Decks, and Other Presos
 
-### Code Releases 
+* InfoQ released a [video](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Knockbox-an-Eventual-Consistency-Toolkit) of Reid Draper's Knockbox talk from Clojure/West. [**July 10**]
 
-* Ray Jenkins released [riak-scala-dao](https://github.com/rjenkins/riak-scala-dao), a reusable persistance layer for Riak written in Scala. [**July 9**]
+### Code Releases 
 
+* Bryce Kerley [released some Ruby CRDT code](https://github.com/bkerley/hanover) that is aimed at Riak usage. [**July 1**]
 * Shuhao Wu completely refactored and released a new version of [riakkit](https://github.com/ultimatebuster/riakkit), a Python Riak ORM. [**July 4**]
+* The team at Trifork released the [beginnings of a C Client](https://github.com/trifork/riack) for Riak. [**July 5**]
+* Ray Jenkins released [riak-scala-dao](https://github.com/rjenkins/riak-scala-dao), a reusable persistence layer for Riak written in Scala. [**July 9**]
+* We [started work](https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1022591) on a Riak Charm for Juju. [**July 9**]
+* mkb and the team at EngineYard released some code called [riak-shim](https://github.com/mkb/riak-shim) that reads config/database.yml and generates sensible bucket names. [**July 11**]
+* Tom Arnfeld released the beginnings of a Riak ORM for the Fuel PHP Framework. [**July 16**]
 
-### Other Awesome Things Riak Users Did
+### Other Awesome Things The Community Did
 
+* Sebastian Röbke [shared a pretty amazing photo](https://twitter.com/boosty/status/220997388754632704) of what they do at they do at the Xing.com offices. [**July 9**]
+* GitHub [announced](http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-development/) a new round of funding. [**July 9**]
 * Boundary [announced](http://boundary.com/about/press/boundary-nets-15m-to-accelerate-the-future-of-it-monitoring-and-management) a new round of funding. [**July 10**]
-* GitHub [announced](http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-development/) a new round of funding. [**July 09**]
+* We announced [RICON](http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/), a two day conference dedicated to Riak, developers, and the future of distributed systems in production. [**July 16**]
+* The team at Kiip [announced](http://blog.kiip.me/post/27401788412/kiip-raises-a-series-b) that they raised a new round of funding. [**July 17**]
+* We announced a [new round of funding](http://gigaom.com/cloud/nosql-startup-basho-raises-11-1m-and-storms-japan/). [**July 17**]
+* Zencoder [announced](http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/26/brightcove-acquires-zencoder/) that it was acquired by Brightcove. [**July 26**] 
+* Dietrich Featherston [tweeted a photo](https://twitter.com/d2fn/status/228556585713143808) showing off the OLAP language he and the Boundary team have built on top of kobayashi, their Riak-based storage system. [**July 27**]
 
 ### New Known Production Deployments 
+
+* [EnStratus](http://basho.com/company/production-users/#user-enstratus)
+* [LoveIt](http://basho.com/company/production-users/#user-loveit)
+* [Payango](http://basho.com/company/production-users/#user-payango)

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 * [Documentation](#documenation)
 * [Meetups](#meetups)
 * [Talks, Slide Decks, and Other Preso](#talks-slide-decks-and-other-presos)
-* [Other Awesome Things Riak Users Did](#other-awesome-things-riak-users-did)
+* [Other Awesome Things The Community Did](#other-awesome-things-the-community-did)
 * [New Known Production Deployments](#new-known-production-deployments)
 
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