S.Lott-Software Architect

I've (finally) updated the pyWeb Literate Programming Tool. There were feature requests and bug reports. Much to do. Sadly, I'm re...

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A library had unit tests that ran for almost 600 seconds. Two small changes dropped the run time to 26 seconds. I was amazed. Step ...

Check this out: http://www.antiifcampaign.com/ . I'm totally in favor of reducing complexity. I've seen too many places where a Str...

Check this out: " Stupid Template Languages ". Love this: "The biggest annoyance I have with smart template languages (Mako,...

Imagine that we've got a collection of applications used by customers to provide data, a collection of applications we use to collect da...

First, read EWD800 . It has harsh things to say about relying on intuition in programming. Stack Overflow is full of questions where someo...