http://www.srtbox.com/ - Nice home page project

StartBox (http://www.srtbox.com/ or  http://www.srtbox.me) is a small project I developed to test an architecture. Startbox is a home page of bookmarks, inspired on Windows 8 or Windows Phone layout. For the moment bookmarks are random, or can be customize if you log in with your twitter or facebook account. Soon I will add more features, like to read your twitter timeline, read your facebook feeds, read rss, see the weather, see stocks, etc.
The architecture that I’m testing has the following parts:
Software:

• ASP.Net MVC 3 with Razor
• MongoDB
• NoRM MongoDB official driver
• elmah
• Twitterizer
• Facebook C# SDK
• Ninject
• jQuery
• SimpleModal

Hardware:

• Amazon EC2 - micro Instance
• MongoLab

The pictures and the design was taken from: DebianArt  design by ~flatmo1

NoRM gave me some headache. Linq with decimal does not work. I had to fix some errors on the BSON Deserialize class. It’s a pitty .Net does not have a good stable driver for Mongo yet. Of course there is the official driver of MongoDB. But does not support Linq, and I could not found any example with POCO objects.

Una buena presentación de MongoDB y NoRM

NYC Alt 2010 Nosql

MongoDB y .Net

Estoy haciendo una investigación, de base de datos NoSQL. Y aparentemente hoy anda muy bien .Net y MongoDB, en especial con un driver llamado NoRM. MongoDB es escalable, anda en Linux y Windows,  gratis, es dynamic schema, no mas modelo entidad relación. Y también los benchmarks muestran que es muy rápido. Sitios como Facebook y Twitter hoy estan usando este tipo de BD, en su caso Cassandra. A continuacíon dejo varios links del tema:
- A .NET Developer Guide to: MongoDB and NoRM
- NoSQL: Getting started with MongoDB and NoRM
- myNoSQL - un portal de todas las NoSQL. Mucha info en este.
- NoSql No Problem - NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial - Querying
- NoSQL with MongoDB, NoRM and ASP.NET MVC - Part 1