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Design patterns are of course less creative. That's the whole idea. Creativity is a scarce resource. You shouldn't waste it on problems that don't need creativity. It is much easier, quicker, and more …

I have mostly used this within user interfaces. The nice thing is that you write it once, and it handles everything from the simplest to the hardest case equally well (for example if the user rotates …

Just a minor thing: it is very helpful for the stability both of the system you are implementing, and of your mind, that an operation is atomic. That is, it is either executed successfully, or it retu …

The simplest code doing the job is the best. The first version just works. And it is very simple: All it has to do is to evaluate which of two functions to call, and then to call the right one. Litt …

Depends on what you are doing. If you expose a member of your class, when it's nobody's business that this is a member of your class, or what the type of that member is, that's a bad thing. If you the …

The essential thing about a Singleton is that there is one call which will return the same instance each time, which makes sure that the instance is available on the first call, and which makes sure t …

You want to allocate vehicles as near to the entrance as possible. I assume that each vehicle counts, so instead of allocating 4/1/1/1/1, you would prefer 1/1/1/1/4 which moves four vehicles to the fr …

You should really try to make your TryGet method callable repeatedly without side effects. How you do that will depend on the language; in languages with garbage collection or reference counting you s …

Feature flags are very much preferable. I don't really care what version it is, as a developer I care about the features. So feature X can be turned off in version 1.1 and turned on again in version 1 …

In C++, a parameter can have type (for example) int i, const int i, int& i, and const int& i. References obviously work different, but if you want to prevent assignment to i, you just make it const in …

Clearly if I have an object with a property “InterestRate” with a getter and setter then I expect that calling the setter to change the value returned by the getter and the interest calculation. Your …

There are two cases: One, you have a function that should either be run or not, depending on the situation. If the function itself cannot decide, the caller must decide. Two, you have a function that …

So I just bought this USB hub with seven ports. And I had this great idea to put a thermometer into each room of my home. The problem is... there's a singleton object! The other problem is that other …

Just a note: It is very, very, very difficult to determine precisely whether you are online or not. The only method that really works is to send a request, and to interpret any success or error messag …

It's a good idea to have a comment at the top of each source file explaining what the code in each source file is good for, and what you would have to do as a user of the application to execute this c …