Archive for 2007/8
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Imperative Programming is Rotting People's Brains
-- Aug. 31, 2007, 11:54 a.m.
We have a problem with our database schema upgrade mechanism at work. The problem is that we don't test the migration script we generate against the databases for which it's targetted. The solution is obvious: Change the way we generate this script. At least, this is the argument I keep getting. Let me fill in some context and see if ...
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Easy HTTP Parsing With Python
-- Aug. 7, 2007, 1:33 p.m.
I'm writing some code to read a pcap file to produce input for a load tester. This is simple HTTP over TCP and I'm picking out the layers in the packet structure as they go. I'm using simple struct stuff to get through IP and TCP, but when I got to HTTP, I wanted to see if there was something ...