Design Patterns: Dynamic behavior with the Strategy pattern

Introduction

This is the second instalment of my series on design patterns in software. For the introduction to the whole series, definitely check out [link: Design Patterns: Introduction with Singletons]. This initial post ...

Class inheritance?

So I've been noticing that a lot of people I know never use class inheritance in Javascript. Coming from a C++, PureBasic, Lua and Assembly world I was extremely happy when I was first introduced to [link: object oriented programming] in C++. I hope that I can make inher...

MySQL-i through unverified user input through PHP and POST

Warning: This post was written in half an hour, if you see mistakes, let me know!

Everyone here probably has heard of SQL injection before, however it surprises me that many developers don't quite understand how SQL injection ...

Demons, oh no!

Don't you worry, we're talking about Daemons here, not Demons. This blog post will be about an object oriented method of creating a timer, communicating with that timer and maintaining its state. I love timers, having code execute at an inte...

Benford's Law applied to actual data

A while ago, I watched [link: a video on Benford's Law] by [link: Numberphile (Brady Haran)]. I was fascinated that there is a law to predict the occurrences of the first digit in numbers.

In a nutshell, Benford's Law states that the probability of a...

Caching data every now and then!

This blog post will be a continuation on my [link: previous post about function memoization], in which I demonstrated simple function memoization. In this post I will discuss an additional method which allows the programmer to specify a specific amount of t...