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I’ve been thinking recently about the role of ‘advanced search’, i.e.
the practice whereby some sites withhold certain aspects of
functionality from ‘standard’ search and accommodate them instead within
a separate search experience. Now,...
0 replies - 2335 views - 02/01/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
When you ask people who know almost, but not completely nothing about
patterns, about software design patterns, they probably bring up the
singleton pattern. It’s extremely easy: Just make sure you have one
single instance of a class.
If you ask more...
3 replies - 5543 views - 01/29/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles
I've used to be a developer advocate an awesome database product called MarkLogic, a NoSQL Document Database for the Enterprise. Now it's pretty frequent that people ask me about database stuff.
In here I'm going to try to explain some fun stuff you can do...
0 replies - 3490 views - 12/09/11 by Nuno Job in Articles
When this article was brought to my attention, I thought ‘wow, not
much hubris there: let‘s go put a toe tag on a piece of the most
important computer book of the last 2 decades.‘ Then I started to read
it and realized that, what a surprise, the...
0 replies - 2643 views - 11/12/11 by Rob Williams in Articles
My last MVC blog tried to add a little depth into exactly what the MVC
pattern is in relation to web-applications, and in writing it I
highlighted the problems and pitfalls of using a JSP Front Strategy as
an MVC front controller pattern.
1 replies - 2906 views - 11/01/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I was buying a used book through Amazon this evening. Three resellers
offered the book at essentially the same price. Here were their
ratings:
94% positive out of 85,193 reviews98% positive out of 20,785 reviews99% positive out of 840 reviews
Which reseller...
0 replies - 3094 views - 11/01/11 by John Cook in Articles
This is a language agnostic post: it is valid for each object-oriented imperative language like Java, C#, PHP. Let's start from the beginning: a web service adapterI had a requirement: downloading posts from a particular group on LinkedIn for analysis of...
8 replies - 4384 views - 10/20/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I cannot say that I am good at explaining theory. I just read it and try to apply it where possible! After all practice and theory are theoretically exactly the same! So If you are intrested in theory, I think that this article at Wikipedia can explain...
0 replies - 4528 views - 09/25/11 by George Valotas in Articles
The front controller design pattern means that all requests that come for a resource in an application will be handled by a single handler and then dispatched to the appropriate handler for that type of request. The front controller may use other helpers to...
0 replies - 6194 views - 05/01/11 by Extreme Java in Articles
This post motivates the Singleton design pattern and explains its implementation in Java.
The Singleton is a design pattern [1] to ensure that a class has only a
single instance. The name is derived from the mathematical term singleton
which means a set...
2 replies - 6796 views - 04/11/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
“Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”
came out in 1994 and it changed the software engineering landscape.
What made this book unique is that it wasn’t really based on code
(although it did contain a decent amount of it) but...
14 replies - 5380 views - 03/11/11 by Cedric Beust in Articles
One of the most common cases of using a TestDouble is
when you are communicating with an external service. Typically such
services are being maintained by a different team, they may be
subject to slow, and unreliable networks, and maybe unreliable
...
1 replies - 4725 views - 01/13/11 by Martin Fowler in News
One of the biggest challenges I’ve had in my career as a developer
was over-design. I used to just dive in and code on projects but soon
afterwords I would end up stuck. To compensate I would spend a lot of
time in the design phase only to discover later...
3 replies - 5798 views - 12/16/10 by David Bernstein in News
This post draws its inspiration from the many religious attempts I have made in the past to follow those golden "Oh you must follow these steps to do design. Else you are doomed". I have tried to use them 'literally' and have come to a conclusion...
2 replies - 5093 views - 09/29/10 by Suresh Murthy in News
ZeroMQ (or ØMQ) is an open source messaging library supported by the iMatix Corporation. It has been described as messaging middleware, TCP on steroids, and now is just "a new layer on the networking stack." Basically it allows you to design a...
2 replies - 10984 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
