Software Warlock » Patterns http://softwareblog.morlok.net Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:06:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 You will be assimilated http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/24/you-will-be-assimilated/ http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/24/you-will-be-assimilated/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:13:23 +0000 Warlock http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/24/you-will-be-assimilated/ Read more »

]]> I was reading up on implementing the Singleton Design Pattern in various languages, and I found an interesting discussion about how the Python community prefers the Borg design pattern instead. The idea is rather than focussing on only allowing one instance of a class to be created, you just make the internal state of the objects the same (one mind, many bodies, get it?). I thought the name was awesome.

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]]> Microsoft, in my humble opinion, has always been more interested in new “technology” rather than the fundamental ideas that underpin the technology.  It makes sense.  Microsoft is a for-profit company.  You make money by selling the newest-latest-greatest, not by delving into the fundamental principals and problems that are common to many software project, regardless of if it is on Windows, the Mac, or *gasp* Linux.  This has changed a little with .NET.  Clearly Microsoft has gone out and recruited some of the best architecture/language/whatever people on the planet to help them build their runtime, languages and development environment.

Anyway, all this hoopla is leading up to a link to the Microsoft Patterns & Practices section of the MSDN website.  It’s for enterprise software (not necessarily desktop stuff), and I haven’t had much of a chance to read through everything yet, so I can’t speak to how good the patterns are, but I thought I’d post it here for anyone interested in going beyond “how do I do X in .NET” to thinking about the deeper issues.

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