Self improvisation is important. It is important to evaluate your deeds, words you speak, the way you speak, how you treat others, what you are contributing to the society, country or even your company. A genuine self assessment allows you to understand where you stand in the crowd, what you are missing and how you [...]
Flying a Kite
Flying a kite looks easy, isn’t it? But it is not, that is what my experience says. On the eve of ‘Sankranti’, there were hundreds of kites in sky. All colorful… and to be frank this is after a long time I saw so many kites in sky. That actually invoked some enthusiasm in me [...]
Template based Factory Method
Factory method pattern is similar to Abstract factory, the major difference being that the former requires sub-classing to create the product objects where as the later does not require. There may be a problem scenario with Factory Method, as having a sub-class for each product may not be desirable. This may be over come by [...]
Killing a singleton
I am reading “Pattern Hatching” by John Vlissides (http://www.research.ibm.com/designpatterns/pubs/ph-jun96.txt). I have come across the Singleton Pattern. The way to use a SingletonDestroyer (SD) class to “KILL a Singleton instance” is interesting.
In John’s approach, destructor is made protected so that the user is not allowed to delete the singleton instance explicitly, also as said Singleton class [...]
My new Headphone – BOSE QC-2
Everyone buys a headphone. Why should I be writing about mine? You shall be wondering… right? But today when I saw people raising eyebrows and asking for a demo I felt a need to ink it down. Over the years I have bought many headphones, none of them lasted for more than a year. The [...]
Singletonitis
My colleagues say that I am infected from “Singletonitis”. It is an addiction to Singleton pattern. :) Singleton pattern allows only a single instance of a class with a global access. Now my addiction is not on its over use in code, but because of lot of preaching to my team mates about singletons…
It may [...]
