Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Obscure Standards, Packaged Products, Latent Bugs

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Read this:  http://jeffq.com/blog/the-ethernet-pause-frame/ Fascinating. A world of interconnected devices in which we place a kind of i...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

On Generator Functions, Yield and Return

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Here's the question, lightly edited to remove the garbage. (Sometimes I'm charitable and call it "rambling". Today, I'...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Twelve Important Design Patterns

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Read this:  http://12factor.net/ Then. After reading it. Read it again to be sure you've got it. It's dense with best practices. ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

That Feeling When... You're reading your own documentation because it's useful and (mostly) correct

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I'm looking at code (as a man does) and I can't remember if there's a class that does X. There's a lot of code. I wrote almo...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Lamenting the Death of Object-Oriented Programming. (Sigh) Again?

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See Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming . I don't want to say that the entire article is bunk. It's not. It raises a few good poi...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Another Python to the Rescue Story -- Creating a DSL from Python Class Definitions

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https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/automating-nosql-database-builds-a-python-to-the-rescue-story-that-never-gets-old-1d9adbcf6792#.8x...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Getting Rid of the Gang-of-Four Design Patterns is Nonsense

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Someone found Yet Another Post (YAP™) insisting that the Gang of Four (GOF™) patterns were on their last legs. The email was misleading, bec...