LAMPlights Personal anecdotes from my experiences using the LAMP stack

2Dec/111

ORM frameworks are black magic

I read a really good post from Vic on his move away from ORM frameworks. I did not agree with everything he said though and wanted to start a discussion. Unfortunately, there is no way to leave comments on his blog. The next best thing is to post it here.

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5Jul/101

Learning To Use MongoDB

I have heard of MongoDB for some time and have read quite a few articles and attended some conference seminars about it.  I had put off using MongoDB because I could find no project that really made good use of it.  About two weeks ago I started a project that doesn't really fit into the relational database mold.  I finally had the perfect excuse to devote the time and effort to learning all about MongoDB and take my place among the ranks of developers using NoSQL (whatever that means).