Simon Willison’s Weblog

Rules of Database App Aging. Peter Harkins: All fields become optional, all relationships become many-to-many, chatter always expands. This is why document oriented databases such as CouchDB are looking more and more attractive.

# 18th January 2009, 9:09 am / couchdb, databases, peter-harkins

Washington Post Update. Peter Harkins summarises the large number of Django-powered database journalism projects released by the Post since September 2007.

# 16th January 2009, 12:18 pm / data-journalism, django, peter-harkins, python, washington-post