karlherler

Hello, I am a long time HN reader, Finnish Computer Science (and Psychology, Maths and Econ) student, hacker and software engineering junkie.

I am traveling to San Francisco in a week (I'll be landing in SFO on the evening of the 26th) and I wonder if there's any startup that would welcome a short "tourist" visit? I would gladly help out in anyway I can while I'm there (I'm fairly experienced with sw architecture, development methodologies and have a good ear).

If you'd welcome a visit please reply in comments or send me a mail at hi@karlherler.com with your address and between when a visit would be best for you guys.

Thanks.

I'm currently work on a few new projects that are in a early, me being the only coder (with some friends occasionally contributing), stage. These projects are all web focused (with iPhone/Android apps in the feature pipeline) and I'm having a hard time deciding on what framework I should commit to.

The current code-base is a straight forward ajax->php->mysql system. I'm trying to decide wether I should switch to a ruby-mongoDB, python-mongoDB, java/scala-mongoDB, node-mongoDB or couchApp/CouchDB or stick with php.

The data I'm using right now is well suited for a document based database so that isn't a problem (at least at the moment), I know all the languages but scala well enough for this.

What I'm wondering about is how resource demanding the non-apache servers are and basically if stability will be a problem with them? If anybody has any experiences with managing a project in those frameworks?

Also which framework you would recommend learning for the future (which one you'd like to know/hire someone who knows)?