Notes by Lex Toumbourou

Also known as Brewer's theorem, after computer scientist Eric Brewer, is the assertion that a distributed data store can't provide 3 of the following capabilities …

A pattern for structuring unit tests

An automated test which verifies a single unit of behaviour, runs quickly and in isolation

Entropy of a system, is also known as "disorder of a system", refers to the number of possible states of a system. Higher entropy refers …

Refers to phenemona that as a project increases in size, ability to add new features and progress decreases.

References:

• Unit Testing Principles, Practices and Patterns …

Metrics that answer the question : how much of our code is executed by our tests?

As a person who's recently found themselves building a game, I really got a lot out of this book. It's a nice balance between theory …

A market with a lot of competitiors fighting for dominance

Multiple interitance refers to an object that inheritants from multiple parents. In Lua, this can be acheived by using Metatables with a metamethod __index which …

In Lua, object-oriented programming is achieved using prototypal inheritance, since Lua does not have the concept of a class. Prototypal inheritance simply means that objects …