But other then that, everything is grand.

I am ahead of schedule! Never thought I would be typing that but its true. My module works, fully. I have been messing with views intergration, which is what nuked my drupal installation. Just a test server with about 3k users and 1k votes. I have gotten the Movielens database ready to be 'drupalized'. Just haven't had the guts to do it. Thats 1 million votes. I know that when my module installs it is going to 'fart' and not finish loading all the data for a site that LARGE!

Personally, I really want other developers to pick up my engine, and develop modules to use it. Right now I have developed node_recommendation.module that utilizes the engine and recommends nodes and only nodes. But I know people use voting data for things other then nodes. And even if they are nodes, they can still break it down to vote only on say movies and not consider any other nodes. Pretty simple to do that with the votingapi.module and cre.module (content_type stored by the voting widget must be 'movies' and the content_type recommended by the module must have content_type of 'movies'). In fact, this ability should be a part of the node_recommendation.module.I shall do that now :-D ....

So far this experience has been a blast! I have met so really interesting people (including my mentors, but also Daniel Lemire author of my algorithm, Richard , Kent Bye to name a few). The really cool part, is that all these people reached out to me, even Dr. Lemire. I did not intitiate contact with them. They all wanted to help me. AND THAT is what is great about this project and open source in general. Perhaps it is because their is little to no montary gain people, are far more willing to help out. And I am sure others have had much the same experience.

Anyways, onwards and upwards! And of course, GO SEE SUPERMAN RETURNS!