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📅 January 25, 2019 Patterns of Software Design ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Design – The Strategy Pattern

Our review of the behavioral design patterns moves on to look at the Strategy pattern. This is one that you might not recognize from the name. However, it is relatively common in use (or…

📅 January 23, 2019 Patterns of Software Design ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Design – The Memento Pattern

We tackle the memento pattern in this episode. If you ever wanted to store the state of an object, then this is the one for you. You can think of this pattern as a…

📅 January 21, 2019 Patterns of Software Design ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Design – The State Pattern

In this episode, we look at the state pattern. It is a design that uses object-oriented tactics to provide a class with very different functionality based on its current state. I think you will…

📅 January 18, 2019 Free and Low Cost Tools ⏱ 4 minutes read

Conference Solutions – Free and Low Cost Tools

The number of conference solutions available out there can be overwhelming. A large number of them are free or close enough that it can make deciding on a solution a difficult task. Thus, we…

📅 January 16, 2019 Patterns of Software Design ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Design – The Mediator Pattern

We spend this episode looking at the mediator pattern. This is a pattern that provides a great deal of flexibility. However, it is not used as often as it should be. The implementation does…

📅 January 14, 2019 A Summary Of Amazon Services ⏱ 3 minutes read

AWS Services – New Since We Started and Looking Ahead

We started this series on AWS services in the late 3rd quarter of 2018. As we start in 2019, there are over a dozen new AWS services that have come online during that time. …

📅 January 11, 2019 Free and Low Cost Tools ⏱ 3 minutes read

Web Browsers – Free and Low Cost Tools

The Internet has become so pervasive that web browsers are everywhere. It is hard to find anyone that does not at least know how to launch one on their phone or desktop. Of course,…

📅 January 9, 2019 Patterns of Software Design ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Design – The Iterator Pattern

At long last, we come to my number one pattern. The iterator is one of those software concepts that you come across and do not know how you managed before you learned it. Maybe it…

📅 January 7, 2019 A Summary Of Amazon Services ⏱ 4 minutes read

AWS Internet of Things Services

One of the latest advances is the Internet of Things. As one would think, this focus on small and connected devices has not been lost on Amazon. They may be one of the most…