Episode 33: Design Patterns

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News

• Giant list of free programming books
• https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
• Porting the Go Compiler to Go
• http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83820197495/russ-cox-porting-the-go-compiler-from-c-to-go
• New Lytro Camera
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/lytros-new-snapdragon-powered-light-field-camera-coming-in-july/
• Hacks for everyday life
• http://www.quora.com/Tips-and-Hacks-for-Everyday-Life/What-can-I-learn-right-now-in-just-10-minutes-that-could-be-useful-for-the-rest-of-my-life

Book of the Show

• Jason:  HTML5 Game Development Insights http://amzn.to/1g94JVS
• Patrick: The Martian http://amzn.to/1smEYc8

Tool of the Show

• Jason: VirtualBox
• Patrick: Bittorrent Sync

Design Patterns

• Singleton
• Create only one instance of a class
• Eager Initialization
• Lazy Initialization
• Example: Instance of a log file that should be shared across application
• Danger: Use as Replacement for global variables
• Facade
• ZombieDB
• Observer (Publisher/Subscriber)
• Asynchronous device driver
• Socket.IO
• Resources
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Head First Design Patterns
• http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/