I’ve been working on jacolyte.com for about a year, and I’m finally finished. It’s undergone many radical changes, and will probably never be 100% finished, but I can finally call it a polished, finished product. Originally, the goal was to have a large music site with tags, categories, genres, comments, an API, an admin interface, and a lot more. With the latest iteration of jacolyte.com, I’ve simplified the goal. The goal is now just an index of music hosted on 3rd party file hosts…

Sometimes all you need is to just persist some data, and not really search it or make relations with it in any way. Sometimes you just want an index of some MP3 metadata, or something of the like. Thus, you can turn to your buddy, the file system. Sometimes making your data relational, and doing advanced views with it is something that adds little value to your data, thus can be disregarded…

I am considering moving the database layer of one of my websites to a document-oriented data-store, specifically, CouchDB. I really like the idea of schemaless databases, and it seems like it would be a lot easier to manage and