Andy Stanton Is Writing

Configuring Ghost Admin to use HTTPS with nginx Jan 26, 2014

I’m considering migrating from Wordpress to Ghost so have them running side by side for a bit: http://oftheoldschool.com (Wordpress) http://andy.stanton.is/writing/ (Ghost) Ghost does not have good media support at …

Scala, Regex, Apply, String Interpolation and Companion Objects Jan 23, 2014

Background: I’ve recently had the opportunity to code with Scala for the acceptance tests in some of the AWS projects we’re doing at work. I read more cool stuff about Scala every day and I’m trying to …

Cross-Platform Considerations 2 Jan 12, 2014

Since my previous writing on Cross-Platform Considerations, I’ve been looking at setting up automated builds based on git commits. I’ll write something more about this at some point but the gist of it is that …

Christmas Hobbying Dec 28, 2013

Unit Testing and Mocking in C++ Dec 23, 2013

This post covers my recent experience with unit testing and mocking in C++. By way of an introduction I was a slow convert to Test Driven Development, mostly due to the lack of it in my first couple of jobs. Once you use …

Aerobatics Dec 11, 2013

One of my colleagues, Jez, is an accomplished pilot and owner of a Pitts S-2A aerobatic biplane. Last Saturday he was generous enough to take myself, Rama and Mike up for a spin - giving us a quick lesson in basic …

What happens when you give software to a professional Tester Nov 10, 2013

Lana is a software Tester. I gave her beta 1. This happened:

Protest The Hero - Volition Nov 9, 2013

I’ve been a fan of Protest The Hero since hearing Fortress some years ago. They’ve recently released a crowd-funded album called Volition which is the heaviest thing I’ve listened to for some time, …

GLFW Skeleton Nov 9, 2013

For convenience, I put a skeleton app with a blank GLFW window on github. The README.md contains usage instructions - it’s Mac oriented at the moment because that’s what I’m developing on, and has …

Lana Tetris beta 1 Nov 9, 2013

Lana Tetris has slowly spiralled towards completion and it’s now in a state where it can be tested. There are currently a great many memory leaks because garbage collection has spoiled me. I’m currently …