My Tool List (Monday, October 26, 2009) - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add
Using MongoDB as a Backend for Django with django-mongodb-engine (Wednesday, October 13, 2010) - I've been pretty taken with MongoDB of late. It's nearly disgusting how productive it is. However, like all database systems it's only as productive as the higher-level systems that interface with it. Personally I've used it primarily from Java and Ruby on Rails (via MongoMapper) and from Python via PyMongo. PyMongo essentially exposes MongoDB via Python dictionaries.
MapReduce with MongoMapper (Sunday, August 01, 2010) - A number of rails projects I've been working on lately have used MongoDB for a back-end via MongoMapper. In general it seems to do pretty much anything I'd want to do in a typical web app but finding documentation on how to do it can be difficult. One such task I came across recently was performing on-the-fly map-reduce. After implementing it myself I decided to
