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…
My Chase of Code Coverage Perhaps it’s because fall is upon us and this is the first year in a while that I haven’t been enrolled in a Master’s of CS program (I graduated in May), I’m feeling a little academic. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been plowing through following TDD by…
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…
I was looking around for ideas about what to do for 404 redirect for the site. My personal favorite is the “You 404’d it–gnarly, dude” message, but copying that seemed in poor taste for some reason. As I was looking, I stumbled across a solution that didn’t occur to me. It’s simple, elegant, and easy…
