- The Singleton pattern,…is kind of a problematic pattern.…In fact, I debated with myself…on whether to cover it in this course at all.…This is because it's often overused,…or completely misused.…In fact, the rumor is that the Gang of Four…design patterns book, won't include it in the next edition.…That said, you will see Singletons in the wild,…and there's some very limited scenarios…where this is a good solution.…So with that in mind,…let's talk about what they are.…Quite often, when we're building a system,…there's some single resource that…is shared by all components…all over the system.…
A common one, is a database connection.…If you open and close a database connection…for each and every request…on each and every page,…it's easy to drain your connection pool…and kill the database.…Our first impulse,…is to create a global object…that gets shared by every class,…function, method, whatever.…While this solves one problem,…it's still possible for there…to be multiple instances…of a given object, which ends up draining…
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1/28/2015- Accessing data with the active record and table data gateway patterns
- Creating objects with the factory, singleton, and mock objects patterns
- Extending code with decorator and adapter patterns
- Structuring applications with MVC and Action-Domain-Responder patterns
Each chapter features a design pattern in a real-world coding scenario, and closes with a practice challenge to test your new skills.
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome51s
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1. The Active Record Pattern
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2. The Adapter Pattern
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3. The Decorator Pattern
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4. The Factory Pattern
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5. Mock Objects
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Introducing mock objects2m 18s
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6. The Model-View-Controller Pattern
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7. The Action-Domain-Response Pattern
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8. The Publish/Subscriber Pattern
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9. The Singleton Pattern
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10. The Strategy Pattern
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11. The Table Data Gateway Pattern
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Conclusion
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