May 11, 2008: Dominica Leave for Houston

Doggy-Daddy Week Begins. The alarm went off at three thirty this morning. We barely had time to close our eyes, it seems. It was tough getting out of bed to go to the airport. I can’t believe that Dominica was able to get up on just three hours of sleep, shower and get herself ready …

May 10, 2008: Discovering the Hudson Valley

New York’s Hudson Valley has always been a strange place to me.  Being from western New York the lower Hudson Valley (south of Albany) is a place of immense history and importance but appears to serve as nothing more than a traffic corridor between the capital at Albany and New York City at the valley’s …

Singleton Pattern in C#

Implementing the Gang of Four Singleton Pattern in Microsoft’s C# .NET language is nearly identical to its Java implementation. The Singleton Pattern (as definied by the Gang of Four in 1995) is to “ensure a class only has one instance, and provide a global point of access to it.” The idea behind the Singleton pattern …