Category Archives: Design Patterns

The Strategy design pattern allows you to select algorithms at runtime. The Strategy pattern is a behavioural pattern and sometimes you will see it used in things like validation, sorting or where a large switch statement has been replaced – … Continue reading →

Today I’ll show one way to use the Adapter Design Pattern. This design pattern is also sometimes referred to as the “Wrapper Pattern” . As the name suggests and as Wikipedia tells us: “the adapter design pattern (often referred to … Continue reading →

Today we will quickly go over the code to implement the Decorator Design Pattern. We will focus only on the code by introducing a scenario and finding a better way to solve the given problem using the Decorator Pattern.

Using Java I’ll quickly walk through how you can use the Strategy Design Pattern. We will cover how one might approach a particular problem and solve it, then we will re-examine the problem and apply a better solution using the … Continue reading →