Software Estimation is Hard Wednesday, April 4 2012 by jonathan
It's really hard to estimate how long it will take to build software, especially if you are not an experienced builder. Here follows my lame analogy. | Read more...
On Design Tuesday, April 3 2012 by jonathan
Some thoughts on Wells Riley's great article about design and how it fits with startups. | Read more...
Come back NetJunky, we miss you. Thursday, March 15 2012 by jonathan
What happened to NetJunky? Well, let me tell you -- NetJunky is now Tappister. Same great taste, new even greater box. | Read more...
Sendai Tsunami Evacuation Simulations Friday, March 9 2012 by jonathan
My research on tsunami evacuation and survival simulations is featured in a Daily Planet special on Discovery Channel Canada. I have a few thoughts and comments leading up to the show. | Read more...
Python URL mangling Thursday, June 30 2011 by jonathan
TL;DR: using query_dict = urlparse.parse_qs(query_string, True) and query_string = urllib.urlencode(query_dict, True) will round-trip query strings the way you probably want them to.
A quick quandry.
>>> import urlparse ...