I have been working on this ‘little’ project I call NodeDB, a document-oriented database written entirely in Python. My work on it continues, but there may be others that are interested in helping. If you are out there you can find the code at http://code.tragicallyleet.com/hg/nodedb. Patches can be submitted on a great little tool called Review Board at http://review.tragicallyleet.com.

Mondrian Code Review On The Web

Here is an interesting video of Guido van Rossum talking about a code review project he built out at Google.

So I have this little project called NodeDB.  It is a Python powered document oriented database similar in some ways to CouchDB, Amazon Simple DB, or Google BigTables.  It is barely big enough to be considered a project at this point but I believe in releasing early and often.

Today I released the second alpha of version 0.1.0…  How is that for hedging my bets?  This release includes:

• Persistent filesystem storage of nodes
• Logging to standard error
• A running test suite

The next alpha version (slated to release in a couple of weeks) will add the beginnings of an indexing system and configuration files.

You can find my little project in its source code repository or on PyPi.

It appears that the WordPress folks took my good idea and incorporated it into the core. As such I will not be updating this project. Such is life!

From Good Math, Bad Math, an article about recent criticism of the MapReduce library.

To explain MapReduce:

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