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January 2009 - Posts

• B.NUG: February Meeting Canceled

  Jesse Baird emailed the user group's mailing list with the following: We will not be having a meeting in February due to the lack of a speaker. We will have a speaker in March talking about VSTO development. Please let me know if you have any topic ideas Read More... Posted Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:26 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: BDNUG

• Nothing There: The Null Object Design Pattern

  While reading Head First Design Patterns , I came across the Null Object Pattern . Which, depending on who you ask, may not be a design pattern. Head First Design Patterns refers to the Null Object as a "Pattern Honorable Mention". Here is an excerpt Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:00 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Design Patterns

• Adapter, Facade, Template Method, Oh My!

  I have added three more design patterns to my C# Design Patterns Cheat Sheet : The Adapter Pattern, Facade Pattern and Template Method Pattern. It is interesting to see how similar the Adapter Pattern and Facade Pattern are to the Decorator Pattern. Head Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Design Patterns