How To Use Design Patterns Correctly
Short answer: as comments. The standard definition of a design pattern is “a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design,” but a better definition is “a good title with a useful description and a pile of other rubbish.” Take “Singleton” for example. A singleton is a class that has one instance [...]
Teaching Good Interface Design
We all know just how hard it is to design good interfaces. Conflicting issues of performance, extensibility, readability and abstraction all influence the final design, and poor decisions early on can continue to cause issues long into the future (for example, the Windows API). The importance of finding a suitable balance is often understated, in [...]
January 16, 2010
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