Some language features are just plain ugly. The first time you see them, you say to yourself, “If I ever have to use that, there’s something wrong with my design.” And most of the time you’d be right.

Practical .NET Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the ...

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...