Although I’ve been enamored with Python for the last 13 or so months, I’ve often dreamt longingly for days of Java glory. Things from the past seem so desirable at times — IDEs with good code completion and integrated debugging, staticly-typed compiler hand-holding, mature application servers and deployment tools. There was never much [...]
I’m going to PyCon 2009! I’ll be there with a few other guys from work. We’re flying in Wednesday night, taking a tutorial on Thursday, and trying to have a little fun throughout the weekend.
If you’re like me, you’ve got a few friends on Twitter, but most others are hesitant to make the jump. Hell, I had a hard enough time convincing them (and myself really) to join Facebook. So what fun would it be if there weren’t any drunk pictures floating around, but rather just a [...]
I never really gave Fiddler all the credit it was due. I guess I should have read the homepage:
Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
I had previously only used it as a session inspector — to review requests and responses as they occurred in the wild. [...]
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We generally preach that you should not use real data in your unit tests. You should instead mock said data out in an effort to lesson potential side-effects, including degrading test performance and adversely affecting live data.
Sometimes, you’d like to test actual file handling in a unit test. If you do, you should [...]
After pulling most of my hair out, I realized a simple mistake in my Python regular expression usage. I had been trying to search a simple HTML document for some text, which happened to be broken across a newline such as:
<div>I’m some
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A new list of the most dangerous programming mistakes was released today by SANS Institute. This is a great followup to the OWASP Top 10. The list of potential application security flaws is broken up into three sections, one for dealing with each of application component interaction, resource management, and weak defenses.
CATEGORY: Insecure [...]
Going against a prior thought I had, in which I told myself to make a single important resolution and stick to it for the year, my 2009 resolution is to make a new habit each month and stick to it for 30 days. After reading Leo’s The Power of Less, I was inspired to [...]
