Experiments in public

Software gardening, as expressed by Hunt/Thomas , Atwood , etc uses the metaphor to deal with how a software project is alive, and is const...

Dear Google, This is a love letter and a call to action. I believe we stand at a place where there is a unique opportunity in managing p...

I've now been back from PyCon for a week, and I've got some thoughts to share. Scope It was huge. I usually try to memorize ever...

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you ar...

In 2013, in the twilight of my "testing" career, I was able to attend Google Test Automation Conference for the third time. Once a...

I have a use-case where I'm using a dictionary as a basis for generating a configuration file, and many of the values in the file share ...

I've been using PyDev  for many years, for Python and Jython development of all kinds. The more recent releases have made some big usabi...

As suggested by Tarek, and done by so many others. 1. What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2...

Well, it's been 3 months, and I've gotten a decent number of things written. It took much longer than I was expecting, but I learned...

I'm pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the Python Web Client. It now meets a bare minimum of functionality to be useful. Specifical...

The release I've polished a few rough edges, and I'm now (somewhat) proud to release Python Web Client 0.1. It's still lacking ...

tl;dr I built a preliminary version of the  Socal Piggies  Python Web Client. Take a look at the code and methodology, suggest features/fix...

As someone who almost exclusively uses high-level languages, the idea of writing my own sorting algorithm seems a bit silly. However, I can ...

So, according to my introduction , one of my goals for this project is to build a web app or service to demonstrate my skillset in that area...

Design patterns are a very broad subject, but as far as I can tell, they are primarily common conventions for structuring software. I've...

Many years ago, I was tasked with improving the performance of a suite of unit tests. They were taking ever longer to run, and were beyond 2...

It's been a month since I started working on this blog, and the only thing I have gotten up is my introductory post, which talks about a...

Hi there, I'm Alec Munro. For various reasons, I've been unable to engage online for the last several years. That is no longer true,...