S.Lott-Software Architect

Some background: I was vaguely pointed at one call in an API, via a 2-page "tutorial" that uses CURL examples. Told "Test t...

Unit testing RESTful web services is rather complex.  Ideally, the services are tested in isolation before being packaged as a service.  How...

First, read this.     Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger . There are numerous important lessons in...

For the 757 Python Meetup group, someone proposed looking at some Python code they had which was slow.  The code implemented a variation on...

It's impossible to step into the same river twice; other waters are flowing toward the sea.  It's impossible to do "head-to-hea...

Many of my customers (mostly super-large IT shops) wouldn't recognize innovative behavior.  Large organizations tend to punish defectors...

A random list of cool things. HTML5.  Start now.  It's supported (more or less) by all browsers if you add appropriate shims.  Start ...