Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions The Problem Let’s say that you work on a web based piece of software that processes orders for customers in some sort of retail capacity and that there is a framework for a lot of existing…
A while back, I blogged about my switch from Eclipse to the community (free) version of IntelliJ IDEA. After that, I went on a number of trips out of town, felt out the job market a bit, and generally engaged in a series of activities that have kept me too busy to work on my…
Oops The other day, I was chatting with some developers and one of them pulled me over to show me the following code: private void SetLayout(Page page) { if (null == page) { return; } } I did a double take and then smirked a bit, pointing out that this was probably dead code. I…
Gaming the System As projects get a little behind schedule or perhaps a little contentious in terms of scope, I’d say it’s common for people to start taking steps to indemnify themselves against blame. I’d also say that this is fairly natural. There’s nothing more likely to attract wagging management fingers than a project behind…
For the fifth post in this series, I’m going to start with a mini rant. A Digression (Rant) About Enum Over the last couple of years, enumerations/enums have been dying a slow death in the world of code that I write. I wasn’t every really an avid user of them, but they’ve definitely been declining…
