David Geary’s series is a masterful introduction to many of the Gang of Four patterns in Java code. Design Patterns is canonical reading for software developers, but many new programmers are ...

Experienced object-oriented developers have discovered that software design patterns facilitate the coding of stable and robust software systems. Reusing these design patterns rather than ...

Every once in a while, someone asks me how I plan out my code, incorporating all the programming principles and design patterns that I've talked about in these columns. I say that I have two rules: I ...

With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance, there are still many good reasons to spend some time optimizing code.

SystemVerilog supports templates for generic code writing using parameterized classes. Here we’re going to describe some of the design patterns in the code that make up the UVM base class library.

EJB Design Patterns goes beyond high-level design pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues, illustrated with source code implementations. The book contains a catalog of ...

Among the better software design practices is the application of design patterns. Design patterns allow you to exploit the experience of your predecessors using proven arrangements of objects.

Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of design pattern training? It's painful, as the project ends up becoming some type of sadistic ...