A Tragic Story It starts out innocently enough. You’re out at a party with some friends, and some people you want to impress are there. Everyone is having a good time, but you notice that some of the ‘cool’ kids are periodically going into a room and coming out giggling. Not wanting to be left…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Creational Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Relatively easy. Up Front Definitions Here are terms that I’ll be using in this explanation and what they mean: Composite: This is another design pattern, but I’m using it here to mean an object that is composed of other objects….
Code Reviews One thing that I tend to contemplate from time to time and have yet to post about is the idea of code reviews and what constitutes a good one. I’ve worked on projects where there was no code review process, a half-hearted review process, an annoying or counter-productive code review process, and a…
In a previous post some time back, I had expressed some skepticism about TDD as a design practice. I talked about test-driven development and its relationship with prototyping and the “make one to throw away” concept. Since I’m not one ever to believe that I’ve arrived at the optimal solution, I’m doing another round of…
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…
