Singleton vs Class Methods: ObjC

Every sometime you might get into a situation with your design pattern, that you might have this inevitable desire to use a Singleton class, or maybe you are coming from C++ background and are much used to it.

10 Things nobody tells the OpenGL noob

I’ve been curious about diving into some real Graphics stuff, as far as I remember from last few years. And because I didn’t get any related education at my college or from anyone I knew, I just had to somehow rely on my destiny and the Internet, or both.

Making singleton class secure: Take 2

Few days back I wrote something about the Making singleton class secure. Its my personal experience, avoid Singleton approach as far as possible in the sense you avoid Pointers and class destructors and switch to Java from c++. But, while I say this every now and then I feel that uncontrollable surge to put all the code in a singleton class and put up all sort of factories in there.

Making singleton class secure

There comes a time for a project, when you can’t resist using a Singleton class, for things that can’t be afforded to duplicate. Say, for example I’m creating a World class and I want only a single world to exist in my entire project. So, next time anyone is referring to World, he’s referring to this:

Dynamic Programming: Take I

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself “Dijkstra would not have liked this”, well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  • Edsger Wybe Dijkstra