March 6th 2012
Registry and automatic plugin system
A few years ago, I mentioned that the registry pattern was my favorite pattern in Python. Well, it may also be my favorite C++ pattern.
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Book review: Refactoring to patterns
After last week book review on Martin Fowler’s Refactoring, I’d like to review another book, more oriented towards patterns and refactoring.
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Book review: Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
I’ve read this book when I started my PhD thesis. It helped me laying down the basis of software conception.
It was the first book where I found the code smell concept. And my former code really smelt…
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Book review: Head First Design Patterns
If last week’s book review was too complicated for you, perhaps this book is more suited for you. Less design patterns, but a funnier way to describe them.
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Book review: Design patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
As I’ve said before, I’ve done several book reviews in the past. I will start with a small serie on design patterns books.
This book is one of the “must-have” in your library. If you write some code or if you manage some IT or Computer Science projects, you will have this book to lay down the basic software architecture.
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Book review: Patterns for Parallel Programming
Like other programming models, there are some patterns in selecting the right parallel solution when it comes to designing a parallel application. This is what this book is about. The solutions may be obvious, but patterns aften are.
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How to promote High Performance Computing ?
I had this discussion with one of my Ph.D. advisors some months ago when we talked about correctly using the computers we had then (dual cores), and I had almost the same one in my new job here: applied maths (finite differences, signal processing, …) graduate students are not taught how to use current computers, so how could they develop an HPC program correctly?
I think it goes even further than that, and it will be a part of this post. What I see is that trainees and newly-hired people (to some extent myself included) lack a lot of basic Computer Science knowledge, and even IT knowledge.
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My favorite design pattern in Python
I’ve noticed some days ago that I mainly used one design pattern in my scientific (but not only) code, the registry. How does it work? A registry is a list/dictionary/… of objects, applications add a new entry if it is needed, and then a user can tap into the registry to find the most adequate object for one’s purpose.
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Wrapping a C++ container in Python
When moving to Python, the real big problem that arises is the transformation of a Python array into the C++ container the team used for years.
Let’s set some hypothesis :
- there is a separation between the class containing the data and the class that uses the data (iterators, …)
- the containing class can be changed (policy or strategy pattern)
The first hypothesis is derived from the responsibility principle, the two classes have two distinct responsibilities, the first allocates the data space and allows simple access to it, the second allows usual operations (assignation, comparison tests or iterations for instance).
The second one will be the heart of the wrapper. It allows to change the way data is stored and accessed in a simple way.
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