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I am a master (not PhD). I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for references or recommendations, I can tell you I don't have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a positive dream for people like you.

Saturday, June 08, 2013

Assert a method is not called using Mox

Let's say you want to unit test a function and make sure that another function is not called at any point during the routine. To do ...

Friday, May 03, 2013

Mock a socket timeout with HTTPretty

Let's say you have a client that raises MyClientTimeoutException if the underlying socket connect times out. You can unit test this b...

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Python Slicing and Copies

I've seen concern a number of times, on blogs or in code reviews, that slicing lists in Python negatively impacts performance, especial...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Labels Containing Symbols are Not Searchable

I don't know how it took me this long to notice, but here on blogger.com, labels containing symbols are broken in that they can't be...

Monday, July 18, 2011

JNI Example with Class Instantiation (C++)

Awhile back I had to create a JNI wrapper for a C++ class that uses a proprietary core C API. Rewriting everything including the core API i...

Friday, July 01, 2011

Alternation without Capture/Extraction/Selection

This drove me crazy for longer than I wanted (since I would want that for varying amounts of time) so I will note it here for other frustrat...

Friday, May 20, 2011

Storing Options with Multiple Values in a Hash using Getopt::Long

I'm relatively new to Perl and was writing a program that takes long options on the command line. I quickly found the Getopt::Long modul...

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