design-patterns – Developer's Columns

Facade–Thy name is deception

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:41:58 +0000

While interacting with groups of developer spanning across domain and companies there are some very consistent observations which can be truly be defined as a Pattern. In coding one of the most prominent word that comes across is – Facade. But is it really used the right way? It appears that its misuse surpass the …

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Slum house or Taj?

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:06:44 +0000

While discussing with a group of programmers and discussing their design (read critical review) the most common protest I get is “but it’s working” Is a code giving desired result I’d the ultimate goal? If a working code is all I need then why talk about best practices? This reminds me of the slum houses …

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Design Patterns in C++

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:02:41 +0000

While having a discussion on Design Patterns there are group of implementers who advocate implementing design patterns using the so called best features of the Programming language. While I too agree, that implementation of patterns should certainly use features of underlying language it could be challenging to decide what defines the best? It seem to be specially true when it comes to programming with C++. Here is my analysis on the subject based on one my recent discussion with a C++ implementer and his arguments.