I associate a number of things with writing test code. The first is finding peace of mind. In years gone by I have written some dodgy code that has gone to production, I still think about some of this code to this day. I still write dodgy code, but I’m able to stop it from … Continue reading Some thoughts on testing
Slice don’t Splice
This weekend I’ve spent some time working on a side project written TypeScript, I’ve never used it before so I’ve spent a lot of time referring to documentation and learning a lot. One thing stood out. I had an array of data that I wanted to create a sub-list of elements starting from and index, … Continue reading Slice don’t Splice
Why are we bad at Software Engineering by Jake Voytko
My favourite quote from this article. We’re decent at building software when the consequences of failure are unimportant. Jake Voytko
Some thoughts on use cases in Kotlin
Originally published here on Medium: https://medium.com/@jordanfterry/some-thoughts-on-use-cases-in-kotlin-6ac8021cbcf1 Recently at the Guardian we’ve started to apply the use case pattern to our business logic. A high level overview of a use case is a class that will encapsulate a particular piece of business logic, or behaviour in your app. You may know of this as an interactor … Continue reading Some thoughts on use cases in Kotlin
January 2019 in sports
As the year counter ticked over from 2018 to to 2019 I kicked into motion my plan to get better at this sports thing. This mainly took the shape of doing a lot more exercise and trying to stick to my training plan as closely as I can. Here’s some numbers from Training Peaks: Total … Continue reading January 2019 in sports
The Great South Run 2018
Between my Sister, Dad and Mum the Terry family have completed The Great South Run a total of six times. Every year a family member has completed it I have never found myself quite ever wanting to run the 10 miles (16km) around Portsmouth. However, given my new found love for endurance sport I thought … Continue reading The Great South Run 2018
Wind, snow and more snow
Once again I have been defeated by the weather an another attempt to complete my qualifying cross country. My first attempt on Wednesday was scuppered by forecast strong and gusty winds – that was a hard one to cancel as the sky was clear and the winds were calm. Luckily, the winds did get quite … Continue reading Wind, snow and more snow
After the hiatus
My last post was written a while ago as I was waiting to finally do my qualifying cross country and then finally pass my practical exams and get my PPL. Well.. seven months later and I’m still waiting. I have been constantly thwarted by bad weather every time I attempt to go flying. However, next … Continue reading After the hiatus
My cross country
August was set to be the month that I finally passed my flying license; nine months of flying and I was set to finally have my PPL. It was not meant to be! One of the last things I had to do was complete my cross country; fly 150nm solo and make three landings and … Continue reading My cross country
My first year of flying
As I am approaching the end of my first year of flying I thought it would be good to put together a short video from the footage I have taken over the year. It was nice to reminisce over my first few flying lessons with my Dad, then onto my first solo flights, then onto … Continue reading My first year of flying