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Overload Journal #98 - August 2010 or Design of applications and programs

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Exceptional Design

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31 January 2007 08:45:00 +00:00

Hubert Matthews discusses some ways to design programs to use exceptions.

The Singleton in C++ - A force for good?

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10 December 2006 09:42:00 +00:00

Alexander Nasonov addresses some problems that arise when using Singleton in C++.

C++ Interface Classes - Strengthening Encapsulation

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10 December 2006 09:41:00 +00:00

Mark looks at the separation of interface and implementation in C++, and how the separation helps to strengthen encapsulation.

The Rise and Fall of Singleton Threaded

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01 June 2006 11:55:00 +01:00

Steve Love explores how 'Singletons' in design can seem a good idea at the time, why they are generally a mistake, and what to do if you have them.

Test Driven Development of C# User Interfaces

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

In my last article I discussed the values in the Agile Manifesto and what they mean to mean. There are many practices that can be used to make yourself more agile. Short iterations, the planning game, pair programming, and refactoring are a few of the practices present in eXtreme programming. The practice of most value to me, and the practice that many recommend to use as a starting point, is Test Driven Development - TDD.

Debuggers Should Go Backwards

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

The computer science community has shown a woeful lack of interest in debugging, which given the huge economic cost of debugging is somewhat mysterious. However, there may be signs of "green shoots" in the desert landscape of debugging tools.

Cryptographic Mistakes Made in Programming

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

A Reflection on Defensive Programming

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02 December 2005 06:00:00 +00:00

Patterns in C - Part 5: REACTOR

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02 October 2005 06:00:00 +01:00

This final part of the series will step outside the domain of standard C and investigate a pattern for event-driven applications. The REACTOR pattern decouples different responsibilities and allows applications to demultiplex and dispatch events from potentially many clients.

Vorsprung Durch Testing

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02 October 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Patterns in C - Part 4: OBSERVER

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03 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

This part of the series will highlight another principle for dependency management and illustrate how both of these principles may be realized in C using the OBSERVER pattern.

Patterns in C - Part 3: Strategy

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02 June 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

This part of the series will investigate a design pattern that adds flexibility to common software entities by letting clients customize and extend them without modifying existing code.