The best community blog posts from July 2012 include an overview of tips and tricks for using MongoDB, a guide on Motor, the Asynchronous python driver for MongoDB, a feature overview of Shard Tagging, improvements in schema design, a post on using GridFS with Spring Data, an overview of the Ming toolkit, tactics for continuous deployment, a log visualization tool release, a real-time Twitter Heatmap creation example, and a call for submissions to be included in the next update.