A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design.
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Is state pattern a good solution for implementing UI changes for Landscape and Portrait modes?
For our iOS app, a lot of complicated UI logic depends on the interface orientation of the ViewController. This conditional logic is present in a lot of places.
Can it be segregated into different ...
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Strategy for normalising and interpreting location data
I'm a bit stuck with a problem involving the normalisation of location input data from the user (which comes from a third party).
Aim
To logically breakdown and interpret the user location input ...
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How to handle assumptions while designing any system?
I have been going through various system design examples to understand how we approach any system design question.
Here is what I have understood till now.
Know the system first and find out how it ...
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“Everything is a Map”, am I doing this right?
I watched Stuart Sierra's talk "Thinking In Data" and took one of the ideas from it as a design principle in this game I'm making. The difference is he's working in Clojure and I'm working in ...
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Alternative inheritance paradigms in object-oriented design
My apologies if a variation of this question has been asked before, but due to its nature it is hard to search for.
I am having a discussion with a colleague about object-oriented design, and it ...
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MVC Architecture — How many Controllers do I need?
I have been coding for a while, but mostly scripts and simple applications. I've moved into a new role where it is all about developing Web Apps and using a proper MVC architecture, so I am ...
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Refactored to a fancy global variable?
I am currently refactoring an application that i built in JavaScript.
The application uses a starting hour and a total working hour count in order to construct a timetable for daily, weekly and ...
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New job gitters? [closed]
I accepted a new job offer recently as a programmer. I get there on the first day and people are non engaging and didn't really smile. By the end of the first week they reviewed my code and tore it ...
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SOLID Application Structure and Design
A one possible structure for an application is to have it broken down into modules such as Data Access, Core, Services, UI. Now depending on what type of ORM you are using Data Access layer will have ...
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Is the Dart philosophy compatible with testability and dependency injection?
One of the Dart criticized features are named and factory constructors.
There are opinions (from dependency injection people), that constructors should be simple and just assign some fields and the ...
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Patterns for Integrating search (ex. Lucene) into a .NET desktop application
I am making a .NET desktop application (WinForms+Local PostgreSQL Server) for managing sales in a small store.
I wish to integrate Lucene search facilities into the 'Product Search' module of my ...
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Law of Demeter issues with complex class design
I've posted questions pertaining to this issue before, but they've all tackled different aspects of the problem (Just so you know that I'm not reposting the same question to get more answers).
So, in ...
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Do SAS coding “best practices” exist?
At work, we develop a lot of our applications in SAS, from start to finish. One of the problems with this approach is that SAS is a very verbose language with very few language constructs; there is ...
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What are the downfalls of MVC? [closed]
I've been using MVC/MV* since I started actually organizing my code years ago. I've been using it so long that I can't even think of any other way to structure my code and every job I've had after ...
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What is this (anti?)pattern called? (or how to describe it)
The case where a source-level operator actually describes an operation to take place at some future point, thunking the real operator together with its operands.
I don't know if this has any kind of ...
