I'm not sure whether any of these are anti-trendy or not, but here are a few things I found myself doing in a project I've been working on recently: * It's an

I'm not sure whether any of these are anti-trendy or not, but here are a few things I found myself doing in a project I've been working on recently: * It's an online bookmarking system, and I didn't add tagging. I found that the UI step to add tags was a bit of a usability burden, and that I never actually used them to find stuff again anyway. * I wrote it in Perl. Definitely not trendy, but it's fast, dynamic and (with mod_perl) stupidly easy to deploy. * I rolled my own JavaScript libraries and wrestled with cross-browser issues rather than using jQuery, prototype, or some such. Why? To learn the nitty-gritty details of DOM manipulation and browser compatibility. * I de-normalised the database from the start. Why? Because it enabled me to build a simple, light and fast object-oriented table wrapper without the overhead of dealing with associations, joins, and so forth. For any structure that does require a table join, I use database views to make it look like it's a simple table to the application.