S.Lott-Software Architect

Computerworld, September 12, page 10. Microburst IT Disasters According to a study of 1,471 big IT projects, 15% turn out to be money pi...

Threads don't promote concurrent I/O. Kernel threads may.  Most of us write user threads.  Here's a great summary under Thread (Co...

Folks like to claim that unit testing absolutely requires each class be tested in isolation using mocks for all dependencies.  This is a nob...

web2py wins an award -- cool. I really like Django .  But...

"Are you implying that a scalable Data Warehouse solution could be implemented using Python and serialised files?" Not "im...

We process a fair amount of externally-prepared datasets.  40,000 rows of econometric data that we purchased from a third-party.  Mostly, th...

Check out this question on Stack Overflow: " Python: replace a string by a float in txt file ". The question is confusing, but i...