Weighted Random Bracket Generator I am a big fan of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. I like to fill out online brackets at ESPN.com for fun every year. Well, I noticed there was an option to randomly generate the bracket this year. For each game, each team had a 50/50 chance of winning. This can … [Read more…]
Mugs Most software developers I work with often dring coffee or tea on a regular basis. So mugs are a great inexpensive gift to consider. Here are some Software Developer themed mugs I got a chuckle out of. “Software Engineers Code Rule The World” Coffee Mug Sarcasm Side Effect Coffee Mug “I’m An … [Read more…]
Weighted Random Bracket Generator Second Chance In a previous post I provided a Weighted Random Bracket Generator for the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. If you are like most, your bracket is pretty busted right now. There are now Second Chance brackets you can enter for the last 4 rounds of the tournament. So I … [Read more…]
Weighted Random Bracket Generator I am a big fan of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. I like to fill out online brackets at ESPN.com for fun every year. Well, I noticed there was an option to randomly generate the bracket this year. For each game, each team had a 50/50 chance of winning. This can … [Read more…]
What is the Builder Pattern? The definition of the Builder Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The Builder Pattern allows you to encapsulate the construction of a product and allow it to be constructed in steps. Builder Pattern Class Diagram Explained The … [Read more…]
What is the Bridge Pattern? The definition of the Bridge Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The Bridge Pattern allows you to vary the implementation and the abstraction by placing the two in separate class hierarchies. Bridge Pattern Pattern Class Diagram Explained … [Read more…]
What is the Proxy Pattern? The definition of the Proxy Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The Proxy Pattern provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it. Proxy Pattern Class Diagram Explained The above class diagram represents … [Read more…]
What is the State Pattern? The definition of the State Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The State Pattern allows an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes. The object will appear to change its class. State Pattern Class … [Read more…]
What is the Composite Pattern? The definition of the Composite Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The Composite Pattern allows you to compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets clients treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly. … [Read more…]
What is the Iterator Pattern? The definition of the Iterator Pattern from both Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide is The Iterator Pattern provides a way to access the elements of an aggregate object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation Iterator Pattern Class Diagram Explained So … [Read more…]