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. In a ...

I've always really liked the design pattern used by the C++ iostreams, whereby you take an object and call methods (or operators) on it which do what they need to do and then return a reference to the ...

Get an overview of design patterns, then use what you've learned to evaluate whether the Composite pattern is a good choice for a particular Java use case Numerous strategies have been devised to ...