The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store). ...
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Today's pattern is the Decorator pattern, which allows class behaviour to be extended dynamically at runtime.
1 replies - 3438 views - 03/15/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally surfaced about this...
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Today we're going to take a look at the Visitor pattern. Of all of the patterns that I've used so far, Visitor is by far the most powerful and convenient. ...
13 replies - 5773 views - 03/09/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
With the emergence of the term "NoSQL," many interested developers and architects are trying to clearly define what this means. Some people may not...
2 replies - 2391 views - 03/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Having focussed on the two factory patterns over the last week, today we'll take a look at the Strategy Pattern, a useful pattern in changing algorithm...
5 replies - 5442 views - 03/01/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
Yet another alternative to the relational database is the object database. Learning a new method for data storage can be scary for some developers, but there...
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For almost a year now, the idea of "NoSQL" has been spreading due to the demand for relational database alternatives. Maybe the biggest motivation...
4 replies - 7900 views - 02/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Having gone through the Factory Method pattern in the last article in this series, today we'll take a look at Abstract Factory, the other factory...
12 replies - 4630 views - 02/23/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
After Facebook made the Cassandra project open source in 2008, the highly scalable, non-relational distributed database proved its mettle at other companies...
3 replies - 6311 views - 02/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
This article will focus on the Factory Method pattern, a variation
on the simple factory. The Factory, as it's name suggests, is a pattern
used to facilitate...
3 replies - 5250 views - 02/18/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
The next pattern in our series is the Singleton pattern. Singleton
is probably the most infamous pattern, as it's use causes a divide in
the development...
16 replies - 4385 views - 02/15/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
This article will focus on the Facade pattern. So far in our design patterns we've already looked at the Observer and Adapter patterns. Facade has some...
8 replies - 5111 views - 02/12/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
This post is a part of a series
that I started with “10
Practices that Every Developer Needs to Start Right Now“.
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Continuing our series of articles, taking each design pattern one by one, we move onto the Adapter pattern. This pattern is used a lot in Eclipse, allowing...
7 replies - 6923 views - 02/09/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
