The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store). ...
2 replies - 2870 views - 03/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Today's pattern is the Decorator pattern, which allows class behaviour to be extended dynamically at runtime.
1 replies - 3396 views - 03/15/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
The first time that someone taught me about Software Design Patterns it went something like this:
Them: “… and so that is the pattern.” Me: “That’s...
0 replies - 2255 views - 03/11/10 by Caleb Jenkins in Articles
One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally surfaced about this...
0 replies - 3584 views - 03/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Today we're going to take a look at the Visitor pattern. Of all of the patterns that I've used so far, Visitor is by far the most powerful and convenient. ...
13 replies - 5742 views - 03/09/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
With the emergence of the term "NoSQL," many interested developers and architects are trying to clearly define what this means. Some people may not...
2 replies - 2378 views - 03/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Having focussed on the two factory patterns over the last week, today we'll take a look at the Strategy Pattern, a useful pattern in changing algorithm...
5 replies - 5415 views - 03/01/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
Yet another alternative to the relational database is the object database. Learning a new method for data storage can be scary for some developers, but there...
0 replies - 2333 views - 02/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
As I explained in my previous post, I think there is a use case for the strategy pattern that, in my opinion, we often overlook:
0 replies - 991 views - 02/24/10 by Alex Ruiz in Articles
For almost a year now, the idea of "NoSQL" has been spreading due to the demand for relational database alternatives. Maybe the biggest motivation...
4 replies - 7884 views - 02/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Having gone through the Factory Method pattern in the last article in this series, today we'll take a look at Abstract Factory, the other factory...
12 replies - 4616 views - 02/23/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
After Facebook made the Cassandra project open source in 2008, the highly scalable, non-relational distributed database proved its mettle at other companies...
3 replies - 6277 views - 02/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Recently, I had a familiar thing happen: I recognized that I needed
a class to make an instance of another class based on some preferences
a user had...
1 replies - 2727 views - 02/22/10 by Rob Williams in Articles
This article will focus on the Factory Method pattern, a variation
on the simple factory. The Factory, as it's name suggests, is a pattern
used to facilitate...
3 replies - 5236 views - 02/18/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
The next pattern in our series is the Singleton pattern. Singleton
is probably the most infamous pattern, as it's use causes a divide in
the development...
16 replies - 4373 views - 02/15/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
