Posts by ahmanwhathandle

Big, fat fail? Here's how to avoid that: Microservices and you

TDD should save the day though...

If a microservice is built well, to genuinely do *one* small job then it should lend itself to easy testing, programmatically - TDD / unit tests etc.

If devs make changes to their microservices they should have tests to run that prove the outputs of that service are the same for given input(s) etc.

Therefore it follows that full integration testing really isn't needed (I agree in theory) to release a new service version into a wider system.

The services just need to be small enough.

Would one retest an entire operating system when a new version of ping or ls was built?

Confession: I was a teenage computer virus writer

Re: Damaging PCs ...

Ah the days of the Lamer Exterminator virus, I look back on them fondly and my time at the local computer club (The BDCC) sharing Amiga demos and messing around with my Action Replay cartridge shoved into the DMA port.

Why two-player games > online gaming: See your pal's shock as you bag a last-second victory

Amiga Format Cover Disks

I love all these old games and they have a fond place in my gaming heart!

Some of my best we're the annoyingly short demos supplied on Amiga Format cover disks which I played as a 10 year old, pretty much on loop as I couldn't afford to buy the real thing.

I've been trying to find a clone of a single screen two player bi-planes shoot 'em up supplied by the venerable magazine. I think it was just called BIP...? Endless fun...just trying to get the plane off the ground and not stalled as you flew as high as possible to the top of the screen to avoid your mate shooting the hell outa you. Only with bullets of course. No fancy weapon upgrades available. This was super simple. You could even fly off the left of the screen and appear on the right like asteroids, only in colour.

Re: Must be the hippy in me...

Omg, I'm so glad you reminded me of Gauntlet! Spectrum, at my mates house when I was no more than 8 years old. Awesome.

Surface 2 MYSTERY: Haswell's here, so WHY the duff battery life?

Re: Nothing to see here but flame bait

What about the MBA 11" with smaller battery?

Google Chrome extension detects dangerous websites

Isn't this tool a security threat in itself?

Tool requires access to all website data. Fair enough, but how much does it know about my banking site contents and stuff on other https sites?