George V. Reilly's Technical Blog

I've spent some time this evening profiling a Python application on Windows, trying to find out why it was so much slower than on Mac or Linux. The application is an in-house build tool which reads a number of config files, then writes some output files.

Backbone.js Testing is a short, dense introduction to testing JavaScript applications with three testing libraries, Mocha, Chai, and Sinon.JS. Although the author uses a sample application of a personal note manager written with Backbone.js throughout the book, much of the material would apply to any JavaScript client or server framework.

I've spent time over the last three weeks working on a new website for the Northwest C++ Users' Group. I blogged about the NWCPP website refresh over there. In brief, I moved the website from an instance of the Joomla Content Management System at Just Host to a static website generated by Pelican and hosted at Github Pages, and I'm happy with the results.

I just finished another post at the Cozi Tech Blog, SerializationException: the constructor was not found

The Cozi Tech Blog needed some love, so I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago on Security 101 for Developers.

Another Cozi Tech Blog post: Generating UUIDs in JavaScript

I wrote up some lessons that I learned about SQLAlchemy Sharding at the Cozi Tech Blog.

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