• A New Breed of Spam

    I haven’t had much opportunity to post lately, as I’ve been spending my free time working on some graphic design stuff for the site at large. Graphic design is not my forte, so playing with pixels and crop and MS Paint takes up more of my time than I would like. But I thought I’d…

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    Bridge

    Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Somewhat complex to grasp, moderate to implement. Up Front Definitions There are no special definitions that I’ll use here not defined inline. The Problem The iconic example of a situation in which the Bridge pattern is applicable is modeling a…

  • WPF Combo Boxes

    I thought I’d put together a quick post today on something that annoyed me and that I found unintuitive: binding with the WPF combo box. I’m doing some development following MVVM, and a situation came up in which I had a view model for editing a conceptual object in my domain. Let’s call it a…