22 posts tagged with "design patterns"

It's very hard to build a large software project without having to undergo major refactorings every so often. Whether it is due to changes…

We all like abstractions. We use them every day to make sense of the world. Sometimes those abstractions can be useful, like saying "hey, if…

Back in the day, applications often went years between deployments. When deployments happened, it was an ugly, slow, and painful process…

Principles are an important thing. However, like any other situation where principles are important, the principles of object oriented…

Unit tests are a great way to make sure that your code is more stable. Not only do they let you check your assumptions when you make changes…

In October of 1999, the Pragmatic Programmer was released. It changed an industry by outlining a philosophy of active participation in the…

Test code is code. This cannot be emphasized enough. So many developers don't treat tests as real code that needs to be designed with…

"Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming language model organized around objects rather than "actions" and data rather than logic…

Dark patterns are everywhere on the web. As companies try to get your email address, get your business, get you to purchase upgrades, and…

Designing a web API (or Application Programming Interface) that lives on a webserver can be very difficult. Not only must you be concerned…

The 7 deadly sins were a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings. Behaviors and habits were classified in here if…

CSS is a pain for most of us. For new web developers, it's yet another way of thinking and has a lot of little gotchas that can waste a ton…

Database normalization is the process of organizing data in a relational database. It was first proposed by Edgar F. Codd in his 1970 paper…

Command/Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is a way of designing the code in an app that talks to a database. It creates a logical…

The principles of domain driven design (DDD) make sense, but a lot of the documentation around it is not very helpful for getting your head…

Your database is often the most important part of your application in terms of actual value to the business. The value of the database will…

Before starting to learn a new programming language you should take a few considerations. How different is the new language from your…

A Brief History of Object Oriented Programming: SIMULA was the first object language created to build simulations. Alan Kay and Xerox Parc…

Soulbound by Bethany Adams available on Amazon "Behavioral design patterns is basically the ways in which objects interact with each other…

Soulbound by Bethany Adams available on Amazon "In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly…

Effectively what a constructor being called by your code does is it causes cohesion between that piece of code and the way that object is…

In this episode Will and BJ begin a four part series on design patterns. This week they introduce design patterns giving a brief history and…