In working with C# quite heavily over the last few years and talking to a lot of people in different capacities, I’ve noticed a fair bit of confusion on the subject of object types and their attendant rules. So I’d thought I’d offer a post to help understand different factors that go into schemes for…
Turning Desktop Developers into Web Developers I’ve been doing a lot of Webforms (ASP.NET) development over the last four months, as I’ve mentioned in some posts. Before that, I was doing a lot of WPF development for desktop applications and before that a hodgepodge of things that included web development with the Java stack. I…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Creational Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Moderate — slightly easier than Abstract Factory Up Front Definitions Creator: This is the basic, abstract factory interface. Concrete Creator: Inheritor factory classes that implement some actual object creation scheme. Product: This is the base/abstract polymorphic object that gets created by…
The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story TL;DR: You read my post about conditional bloopers and thought, “what’s wrong with that?!?” Let’s say that you recall the lesson from last time and you make sure that you also avoid statements like “if(A && (A || B))”. You draw out truth tables whenever you feel…
I would like to preface this post by saying that I don’t like the Singleton design pattern at all. There are some who love it, others who view it as a sometimes-useful, often-abused tool in the toolbox, and then there are people like me who believe that it’s extremely rare to see a use of…
