As a company's problems continue to become more complicated, your code will become more complicated. Peter shows how refactoring code can lead you to better designs. When I discuss design patterns, I ...

Recently I wrote two Java programs (for Microsoft Windows OS) that must catch global keyboard events generated by other applications concurrently running on the same desktop. Microsoft provides a way ...

Chain of Responsibility decouples the sender of a request from the receiver by allowing one or many handler objects to handle the request. The Chain of Responsibility Pattern is a common ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X from Windows and I’m thrilled with the results. But then again, I only spent a short five-year stint on Windows NT and XP; before that I was strictly a Unix developer ...

Six months in: Are tariffs really rebuilding American manufacturing? U.S. tariffs are boosting headlines but not yet rebuilding American manufacturing, as structural barriers in labor, cost, ...