Re: Update Re: Hope you didn't buy a launch PS3

On Mar 8, 1:21 pm, Doug Jacobs <djac...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"The Almighty N (Blig, Creamy and Jonah's owner)" <simplytheb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ah well. ?Things like this keep me employed.

Only an amateur would do something like that these days...

Which thing?

The y2k thing?

Nope. The DNS example you gave.

You're correct.  All date libraries now force the use of 4
digits for the year.  Of course, this means we're building up to the Y10k
problem but hey, none of us will be around to see that anyways :p

If you're talking about checking error codes and making assumptions,
you're sadly mistaken.  The Iron Man blu-ray disc is a great example.  The
boneheads decided that if you let your Iron Man blu-ray go online, it MUST
download the latest version of this in-movie trivia quiz before proceeding
to the menu.  Problem is, the code doesn't check for an error code, nor
will it continue until the data comes down.  The website wasn't finished
when the blu-ray shipped, so all attempts to connect would fail.  
Unfortuately the blu-ray was coded to only assume a succesful download.  
As a result, the disc would "hang" waiting for a quiz that would never
arrive, and lacking any sort of override in case of a network problem.

And that's bad, *amateur* application design. Further, that reveals a
remarkably bad QA process.

People waited hours and hours for the movie to finish loading, thinking
their blu-ray player was broken.

Another common problem I see is when the system depends on its GUI to do
all the data verification - which could be fine if the GUI nad the backend
are using the same spec for that particular data field.

Again, it's all in the design and planning. My team has *lots* of
discussions about where validation should occur.

--
It's not broken.  It's...advanced.
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