Three Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each. Patent number 7,714,265 is for an integrated proximity sensor and light sensor. Apparatuses and ...

Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices ...

Take advantage of the command design pattern to decouple the requester of an action from the object that executes the action Design patterns are proven solutions used to solve common design problems ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

One of our biggest challenges as software developers is organizing our code so that it is easier to extend and maintain. The Command pattern helps us do that by encapsulating all the data required to ...

Note the calendar visible just to the left of John Harasaki, who was given the job of removing essential items during the Apollo 11's quarantine period. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum ...