zacstewart

A client complained that I added a white line above his map the other week. Sure enough, there was a 3 pixel line above the map. I investigated further and it's actually in the iframe, inline, applied to the body tag.

I figured it was an anomaly at first, but then I started to look at other projects I'd used embedded iframes on. Now I'm noticing it all over the place. I found a bug report, but it's been a while. How long does it take them to get someone to tweak a stylesheet?

Example: http://curtziegler.com/sitedemo/studio960/wordpress/contact-us/

Bug report: http://codecanyon.net/item/ajax-contact-form/50846

I'm in the process of building a social Bayesian suggestion engine. I've coded out a large portion of it from scratch in PHP following an MVC design pattern, but I'm starting to wonder if this is the right environment for doing some Bayesian inference. Will good ol' MySQL work on a grand scale?

Reading about the obstacles Hunch has encountered has made me reconsider PHP, but that's what I know best. I'm fairly proficient in Python, so it wouldn't be such a leap to use Django, but I'd prefer not to if there's not a big performance difference. I've looked at MongoDB and it looks like I could replace MySQL without requiring me to rewrite too much of my code base. Node.js looks pretty exciting, but I know very little about it's proper application or whether it's stable enough.

I'm up for learning to work in a new environment if there's something that's just _right_ for the job. Any suggestions?