S.Lott-Software Architect

No discussion of legacy preservation is complete without some "Paving the Cowpaths" stories. The phrase refers to the way cows...

It's 1980-something. We're working on a fairly complex system that includes some big machines and three computers. One of the comp...

Let's visit some other conversion activities in the 1970's. The gig was at a company implementing a customized insurance applicati...

Wind back the clock to the late 1970's. Yes, there were computers in those days. Some of my earliest billable gigs where conversions...

Rule One: Writing Software is Capturing Knowledge. Consequence: Converting Software is Preserving Knowledge. When software is revised f...

Step 1.  Look at the original  HamCalc .  Even if you aren't interested in Ham radio, it's an epic, evolving achievement in a specia...

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