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My most recent blog entry - Flyweight/Multiton Design Pattern - When you thought you only wanted a Singleton, but you just couldn't stop at one

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Flyweight/Multiton Design Pattern
When you thought you only wanted a Singleton, but you just couldn’t stop at one
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November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Singleton Design Pattern

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Singleton Design Pattern
The One, The Only - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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My most recent blog entry - What Is an Object? - Clarifying Class, Object, Instance, and Their Real-World Meaning

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What Is an Object?
Clarifying Class, Object, Instance, and Their Real-World Meaning
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September 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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My most recent blog entry - The Director - More Than Builder’s Sidekick - Should Builder’s Director have been its own design pattern?

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The Director - More Than Builder’s Sidekick
Should Builder’s Director have been its own design pattern?
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August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Builder Design Pattern Completed - Continuing from the previous blog to the complete Gang of Four Builder design

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Builder Design Pattern Completed
Progressing toward the Gang of Four’s complete Builder design
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August 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Builder Design Pattern - Basic Implementation - From Constructor to Basic Builder

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Builder Design Pattern - Basic Implementation
From Constructor to Basic Builder
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August 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Builder Design Pattern Introduction - Building complex objects one element at a time step-by-step until complete

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Builder Design Pattern Introduction
Building complex objects one element at a time step-by-step until complete
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August 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Abstract Factory Design Pattern Without the Confusion - Building Smart, Swappable Systems One Layer at a Time

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Abstract Factory Design Pattern Without the Confusion
Building Smart, Swappable Systems One Layer at a Time
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July 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My most recent blog entry - An Introduction to Creational Design Patterns - Different mechanisms to create objects without calling new directly

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An Introduction to Creational Design Patterns
Different mechanisms to create objects without calling new directly
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July 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Consumer-Driven Contract Testing - Giving the consumer exactly what they asked for

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Consumer-Driven Contract Testing
Giving the consumer exactly what they asked for
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July 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Test Layers - Unit, Integration, Acceptance and System Testing.

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Test Layers; From Unit to System
Building Confidence with the Right Tests at the Right Level
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June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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New Blog Feature - AI Notebooks. These AI Notebooks are AI agents for eight of my Blog series. No new content, but a new way to consume and interact with it.

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Preface, Primer, Table of Contents, Etc.
A little bit of order to organize the chaos.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Software Contracts - Specifying the obligations and expectations between client and provider

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Software Contracts
Specifying the obligations and expectations between client and provider
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June 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Humble Objects - Designing Code You Don’t Hate Testing - A pattern to help test code that's difficult to test.

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Humble Objects - Designing Code You Don’t Hate Testing
A pattern to help test code that’s difficult to test
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April 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Mastering Time in Software Testing: Strategies for Temporal Behavior Verification - where I present how to take control of time in unit tests.

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Mastering Time in Software Testing - Strategies for Temporal Behavior Verification
Become a Time Lord and control time in your tests
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April 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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My most recent blog entry: Approval Testing - A Test Strategy for those who are reluctant to try Test-Driven Development

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Approval Testing - A Test Strategy for those who are reluctant to try Test-Driven Development
I’m the Design Pattern Evangelist, and I APPROVE this message
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April 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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My most recent blog entry - How do you know if your test code is really testing your code? - where I present how we can feel more confident that our tests are actually confirming the code.

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How do you know if your test code is really testing your code?
Mutation testing tests your tests
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March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Working Effectively with Legacy Code - where I borrow (steal) Michael Feathers' ideas and put my spin on them.

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
… with all due respect to Michael Feathers in stealing his book title and a lot of his ideas for this blog
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March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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My most recent blog entry - A House Divided Against Itself Will Not Stand - where I resolve an inconsistency between My Design Process and TDD blog entries.

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A House Divided Against Itself Will Not Stand
Resolving an inconsistency between my Design Process and TDD blog entries
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March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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My most recent meta-blog entry - Preface, Primer, Table of Contents, Etc. - groups most of my blog entries by their core themes.

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Preface, Primer, Table of Contents, Etc.
A little bit of order to organize the chaos.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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My most recent blog entry - What Is Cohesive Abstraction? - which concerns Abstractions referencing other Abstractions consistently with a surprise visit from the Abstract Factory Design Pattern.

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What Is Cohesive Abstraction?
How to manage cohesion among abstractions consistently
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November 27, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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My most recent blog entry - Coupling and Cohesion - Take 2 - in which I return to this topic for more clarity and context.

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Coupling and Cohesion – Take 2
Let’s revisit these concepts one more time
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November 22, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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My most recent blog entry - What are Cohesion and Coupling? - which are two concepts sticky concepts.

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What Are Cohesion and Coupling?
Cohesion and coupling address when things should and should not be too sticky with one another
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November 7, 2024 at 10:36 PM