Unit testing RESTful web services is rather complex. Ideally, the services are tested in isolation before being packaged as a service.
However, sometimes people will want to test the "finished" or "integrated" web services technology stack because (I suppose) they don't trust their lower-level unit tests.
Or they don't have …
more ...It's impossible to step into the same river twice; other waters are flowing toward the sea. It's impossible to do "head-to-head" project comparisons. You can't have the same people doing the same thing with only one constraint changed. You can try to resort to having similar people doing the exact …
more ...A random list of cool things.
After spending a couple of years (really) working with a publisher, the deal has gone south.
The problem was—likely—all mine. The book wasn't really what the publisher wanted. Perhaps it was close and they thought they could edit it into shape. And perhaps I wasn't responsive enough to …
more ...Here's an object lesson in bad requirements writing.
"Good" is defined as a nice simple and intuitive GUI interface. I would be able to just pick symbol from a pallette and put it somewhere and the software would automatically adjust the spacing.
Some problems.
I suddenly realized that QR Codes are everywhere. Except my business cards. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qrcode/2.0 That should allow me to solve that problem and move on.
Recently started looking into Metadata Registries and UDEF and related semantic technology.
The Wikipedia page lists a bunch of relevant Metadata Registry projects and commercial products. Very nice. Easy to follow the links and determine features and benefits.
However.
A client has IBM Cognos. Is there any easy to to …
more ...Check out this picture.
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/27/what-5mb-of-storage-looked-like-in-1956/
When I was in college (1974-1978) 64K of RAM was the size of a refrigerator.
By 1982, 64K of RAM was an Apple ][+ fully tricked out with the 16K expansion card.
I vaguely remember working …