A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design.

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Observer design pattern in Swift

The problem: We have a set of mobile mechanics who are assigned specific zip codes. Each zip code has its own hourly rate. We want to increase and decrease these rates when the number of idle ...
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Backbone communication between views , a different pattern [closed]

I've read about mediator, event aggregator, using, backbone.events ...etc I need advise about another potential pattern below, do you think this is evil ? or good ? if not good what are the ...
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View programming pattern in C++ without raw pointers

I'm trying to achieve, for lack of a better term, a "view" pattern in C++. It's probably most comparable to "views" in the Database world, where one can make a query, and then perhaps aggregate the ...
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Signing timestamped API queries

Goal The following code should prove to offer sufficient security for public API so my main concern is about design flaws in process. Provided code is meant to describe the process and eventually ...
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How can I refactor this method in C# with a design pattern? [closed]

I have this method in C# that could be refactored. Should I use a design pattern? I see too much repetition and it gets worse if more conditionals are added. Should I change it to a method call? ...
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Shape inheritance hierarchy

I have managed to build an inheritance hierarchy for shape class object and I am wondering if there is a better solution to combine the following 2 hierarchies. To begin, I have a 4 shapes classes ...
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Sending an SMS message using zenoss and python

I have just finished a simple python script which uses this module to call Zenoss API for getting live events. What the script does: connects to zenoss reads a file which has one phone number on ...
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Which is correct : Open one Connection for inserting List of objects or open connection for every single insertion?

I have written the following method twice but I don't know which is better from performance perspective, code design and best practice. First: ...
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Implementing Entity and Component in a game engine

I'm currently creating a game engine for my personal project. And I'm currently implementing Entity and Component System. Classes and Interfaces Definitions Here the classes and interfaces that ...
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Long running in-process Publish/Subscribe class

I have a Pub/Sub class that will call Notify() when published and that Notify() could take around 10 seconds, so I need to make ...
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UDP Server Design and Performance

What I'm doing I am writing a server to work as my games backend. The server is being written in C# using UDP as the protocol, while the game is in C++. The biggest thing I've been focusing on was ...
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Reading a properties file using design patterns

I am trying to read properties file using a singleton class. I would like to know if there are any best practices and design patterns to read the properties file. I found dependency injection is one ...
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Implementation of Abstract Factory pattern with different vendors for product

I am studying about design principles and design patterns. I have implemented an Abstract factory pattern as per my understanding. The scenario I have considered is as follows : There is an ...
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Reusable Properties File Reader [duplicate]

I have implemented a properties file reader. The goal behind creating the properties reader is to cater to different application teams to import the class and read the properties in their projects. ...
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Pokemon stats calculator

I have a simple working (so it's not a hypothetical stub) framework for calculating Pokemon stats that will later be incorporated in a game. It uses the LCRNG from the first game in order to be as ...
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Application Settings Helper

I'm developing an app which stores some different user settings in app.config such as connection strings, paths for saving reports, default printer e.t.c For retrieving them I made a static class ...
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Module pattern JavaScript to initialize page, add event listeners, load map

I've written a script that I would love to get feedback evaluating the following: Module Pattern implementation, robustness, conciseness, cross-browser compatibility. My goal is to eventually use this ...
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Throwing exception in the singleton pattern in C#

I'm implementing an HTTP client shell that's going to be used for the lifetime of my application in C#. It needs to be initialized before the instance can be accessed. It looks something like this: ...
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A property that can represent both a fixed date and a day range: How to properly model that? [migrated]

I work in a system that can represent a "shipping estimate" in two ways: A specific date: The item is guaranteed to ship at that date A day interval: The item will be shipped "X to Y" days from ...
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Command and observer pattern to build installer wizard

I've done this mainly as an exercise to understand these design patterns. I'm writing a theoretical install wizard which will allow users to select different options throughout, and have it execute ...
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Instantiating different kinds of error records for a database operation

I've written code to be called from Powershell like so: Rename-DatabaseUser -Name 'someuser' -NewName 'somenewuser' I'm wondering if there's another way I can ...
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Convert custom format to XML Template

I have just finished writing a simple Python3 program which converts a custom input file (or multiple files within the same folder) to an XML template. It works as it is, but I think that I somehow ...
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Strategy pattern using an abstract class and an interface

I have implemented some sort of the strategy pattern using an abstract class and an interface: ...
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Instantiating shapes using the Factory Design Pattern in Java

Trying to learn the factory design pattern, came up with some code based on a Shape Factory (found this example here). Is this the right way to implement the factory pattern? ...
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Simple dictionary storing/viewing application

A TreeView on the left which just displays a list of files saved by the application. A DataGridViewon the right to display data ...
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Database stored procedure with a “preview mode”

A fairly common pattern in the database application I work with is a need to create a stored procedure for a report or utility that has a "preview mode". When such a procedure does updates, this ...
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ViewModel class in Typescript

I am trying to refactor a ViewModel class because it has two methods that are really similar called updateRegions and ...
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Dependency problem in C#, through polymorphism, and appropriate design pattern

I'm currently working on a project which involves EntityFramework with a (very) rich model (lots of inheritance). I'm currently facing a problem, quite interesting in my opinion. My model is ...
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Custom Navigation Bar View Implementation

In one of my app, i m using custom navigation bar view to handle all Navigation Bar Properties. Is it good practice to use custom navigation in given below way? Any Optimizations need to be done. It ...
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Business with dbcontext and static class

Many speak of using dependency injection. I do not use repository. The entity framework is uow/repository. What is wrong with using static class like the one below? My context is a new instance per ...
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Implementation of MVC in Java

I've followed several guides on how to implement MVC in Java, and so far I've come up with the classes shown below. From my understanding, MVC follows these guidelines. The Model should be ...
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Message Service

Below is the code to a Message Service. Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve the methods. It doesn't feel clean to me. ...
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LINQ to SQL code - in models project or in db project

I currently have two projects. One called Models, a second called TaskEntityModels, a model first ...
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Enum Singleton implementation in Java

I just wanted to implement the enum singleton in java. Here is my implementation where I have tried to create a singleton DataSource instance: ...
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Command design pattern in remote controller model

I'm learning command design pattern right, so I decided to make this project. Basically it's a remote controller and it issues commands to VCR. I've seen different implementations of this pattern so ...
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Decorator to construct a composite in Python

To gain more insight on the language and its advanced features, I coded a decorator to patch a Python class and obtain a composite. The composite can be constructed inferring methods from an interface ...
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Command pattern for non related recievers in Java with command execute and undo operations

Below is the code I have written to enhance my understanding of Command Pattern in Java. As per my study and understanding, when we have some entities [ which we call as receivers ] then Command ...
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Object-oriented implementation of a real-world scenario of using a bathroom - follow-up

This is revised code for the previous question: Object-oriented implementation of a real-world scenario of using a bathroom Is there any object oriented way or design pattern I can use to make this ...
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Controller for a vehicle servicing AJAX app

I am working on a codebase that operates in the following manner: ...
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Portfolio object made of Asset classes and Securities

I am learning Swift and object oriented programming. I am new to design patterns and protocol oriented programming. In my test code I have several related objects: ...
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Object-oriented implementation of a real-world scenario of using a bathroom

Is there any object oriented way or design pattern I can use to make this code better? How can I avoid casting in this code? What if I add new Object like WaterTank ...
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Abstract factory pattern for implementing AdNetworks on multiple platforms [closed]

Here's the link to the github project. I want to implement abstract factory instead of adding platform-dependent compilation flags in just one file and make it ugly, hence decoupled code. Moreover, ...
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Pattern-matching-esque code

I've come across a need for code like this a few times - you have an object (or objects) that may or may not have certain properties and values within those properties. Consider a program with ...
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TreeNode with nested super as parent

I found a way to use the JLS as a tree-structure (at least in let the parent-field disappear). Please ignore the main-method. It works, but from OOD would you say this is ok? ...
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Unity3D script for controlling a character

This is a Unity3D script I wrote for my game to control a character. I don't consider myself a highly-skilled coder, so I come here to ask for suggestions. Is my code clean enough? How can I improve ...
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Dynamic graph in C++11 with shortest path algorithm

I've been designing a dynamic graph to improve my understanding of C++11. The dynamic aspect means that it could represent the hyperlink structure of a chunk of the internet, with node deletion ...
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Find the appropriate transformer for an abstract value

I want to get rid of the following code duplication within the MyFacadeBean. Consider the following situation: ...
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Implementation of bridge design pattern for a web scraping app - follow-up

Earlier today I tried to implement an example of the bridge design pattern, but I ended up misinterpreting it. I made a lot of changes: ...
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Implementation of Bridge Design Pattern

I made an implementation of the Bridge Pattern to handle ever-changing in crawler APIs that I'm using in my APP. ...
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Class structure to handle API exchange

I'm developing a simple application that crawls web pages to obtain some information. For this I used and tested some libraries, like crawler4j, jsoup, jaunt and htmlunit. I change the crawler APIs ...