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 …

Singleton Pattern in Java

Implementing a Singleton Class Pattern in Java is a common and easy task. 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 is that there can only be …

May 8, 2008: Beginning My Programming Project

I had to play catch-up with the SGL posts today. I was running a little bit behind. I didn’t have a chance to even open the editor yesterday and May 5th was still sitting in my “drafts”. But I got caught up. Now that my huge Red Hat exam project is over I am able …