The Singleton Pattern is one of the most widely used patterns from the Gang of Four (GoF) Desgin Patterns Book. One the reasons that it's so widely used, I think, is because it's also very easy to understand. The basic idea is that you control the creation of an ...

NUnit is my Unit Testing tool of choice for .NET development. Microsoft provides a unit testing framework but it only works with some higher-end versions of Visual Studio. They're so similar that it's almost ridiculous that Microsoft created their own version. (See one of my previous posts for more information on ...

I thought I'd follow up with my previous post with the Coffee Domain Specific Language in the Groovy Language. This is really one of my first forays into Groovy, so it's pretty rough. It's really just a direct translation of the Ruby code and not what I would expect to ...

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are the idea of creating syntaxes that model a very specific problem domain. Domain Specific Languages are not a new concept. Some people call them 'little languages'. The Unix world has a bunch of little languages. Grep, awk, sed, lex, and yacc all exhibit features of ...

Welcome to the disco era...wait, wrong Groovy. Groovy the programming language is dynamic programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. At a first glance it looks a lot like Ruby, but it's built from the ground up to leverage the JVM. This offers a lot of power as ...