Category: Software Engineering

Design patterns: Visitor pattern

Have you ever noticed? If you say “Hi” to Jay, he replies the same. However Jyoti always replies, “What’s up!”. When you get angry and say “Shut up!”, the reactions are different too. Jay is calm, but firm. His reply is, “Hey, watch your word, buddy!”. But Jyoti loses it and says, “Shut up yourself, dumbo!”

How can two persons interpret the same words differently and react so diversely? Well, chances are that nature has used visitor pattern to program their behaviours that way! Continue reading “Design patterns: Visitor pattern”

How agile is your project: Part 1

Technology is always riddled with jargon. No sooner have we mastered one jargon term that another twenty head our way. It is just impossible to keep track of all of them. However one jargon has been flying around for too long now and very few people are actually able to make good sense out of it. That jargon term is ‘Agile’. This term is so often used nowadays. Every day you will come upon a company that announces that they have adopted Agile methods. But ask them what they mean and they will not answer in simple English. That is what I want to do in this post. Continue reading “How agile is your project: Part 1”