John Cox

The Road to Web 2.0: The Database Design

This is the first of a continuing series of articles that explore making a Web 2.0 application. The concepts are easy to put to use, and aren't that much different (in my opinion) of normal web architecture. In this series of articles I will be exploring my design and development a Web 2.0 application. In this first article I will be discussing the initial database design of com.pendio.us for insight on the choices that I have made for a new style of discussion board. While I am still actively developing com.pendio.us, (it is still rather buggy, but that is to be expected for a week old project) I thought it might be fun to discuss some of my design choices as a longer tutorial style entry. I will only be discussing the design of the actual application, please note that I am using several tools to speed my development:

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