Design patterns are just for Java architects or at least that's what you may have been led to believe. In fact, design patterns are useful for everyone.
The core concept behind design patterns are simple. Over their years of developing software, developers found certain patterns of solid design emerging, just ...
Archive for March, 2009
Written by Gertjan on March 30th, 2009
Written by Gertjan on March 27th, 2009
When creating a database class using mysql, we would create a class, and call it's constructor in the script.
One potential problem with this approach is that each time we create a new database object, we allocate more and more memory to those operations. In some cases, it might make sense ...
Written by Gertjan on March 18th, 2009
To make a map as engaging as possible, there needs to be smooth animations and crisp graphics. Traditionally such a map would require the use of Flash. Joel Sutherland tried to avoid Flash whenever possible, so he began to consider how the map could be accomplished in jQuery.
There ...