S.Lott-Software Architect

It can be a fatal mistake to impose a story arc on a project. Aristotle's Poetics is a commentary on drama, in which he identified two s...

A year and change back, I wrote this on " Exploratory Programming ". It turns out that it was a mistake. While the subclass-expan...

Interesting comments to Splitting Meta-Hairs . Terms like Scripting, Interpreted and Dynamic are not "marketing terms". New, Imp...

Recently, I've been involved in some hair-splitting over the nature of Python. I've described it as "interpreted", "s...

Eight Things Business Hates About IT. Plus eight things IT hates about business. I suppose. While there are 8 things identified, they seem ...

From time-to-time I hear a few mentions of MapReduce; up until recently, I avoided looking into it. This month's CACM , however, is choc...

Interesting thoughts: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201001/d_richard_hipps_software_universe.html I use SQLite heavily. Time to look into ...