Data Evolution

Oh hell. I've got an interesting idea buzzing around my head like an angry hornet, so I'm diving back in to re-evaluate django/rails/merb and the various ORM solutions to make this light-weight, scalable and fast to prototype.

Things have moved surprisingly fast on the merb front, and I've got some research to do to come back up to speed. Rack-based server integration, multiple ORMs, merb-core and merb-more, clean APIs and intelligent mutex locking. All the joy of using ruby, with none of the headache of rails? Can this be? Ezra's one cool cat, and he's been doing good work, so I'll be smoke testing this for my needs soon.

Django definitely has an advantage or two for my current needs, and I'd enjoy picking python back up, but it needs further review, too. I've decided I don't want to go stock rails, and django does enough things that are rails-alike that I'm a little gunshy.