1. Proxy: The proxy pattern provides a surrogate for another object (You make your calls to the proxy, and the proxy calls the other object to get the work done). The first example that comes to mind when thinking about a proxy is web services. Web services are methods available somewhere on a server. We [...]
January 7, 2011
Design Patterns – Part 2
Structural Pattern: As the name implies, this pattern concentrates on how elements are structured. For instance, when I look at windows explorer, I see a folder that contains a list of other folders that contains files and folders, and so on… This concept relates to the composite design pattern. The patterns we will explore in [...]
January 6, 2011
Introduction to Design Patterns Using C#
Design Patterns are common solutions to problems you encounter as you are developing software applications. As you are writing code and finding elegant solutions to business problems, you see yourself asking questions such as: why am I copying and pasting code very often? I think I have seen this problem before, did I write a [...]
November 27, 2010
eBay Data Center Earns LEED Gold Certification
A post on eBay’s Green Team Talks blog explained, “Topaz becomes one of only a small handful of data centers on U.S. soil to achieve LEED Gold – a pretty major accomplishment considering the availability and security requirements needed to run eBay AND PayPal’s servers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days [...]
November 11, 2010
Yahoo Names New North American Ad Sales Head
Yahoo announced today that the company will appoint Wayne Powers as senior vice president, Advertising Sales for North America. Powers, who previously served as President of the Time Inc. Media Group, will report directly to incoming Executive Vice President of the Americas, Ross Levinsohn. Powers will be based in Yahoo!’s New York office. “Wayne is [...]
November 2, 2010
Facebook Provides Users With Election Resources
“Tomorrow is Election Day and Facebook is committed to encouraging people who use our service to participate in the democratic process. As a result, Facebook is focused on ensuring that all of our users know where they can participate in this year’s elections,” Facebook’s Andrew Noyes said in an email. “U.S. users over age 18 [...]
October 19, 2010
LinkedIn Lets Users Add More Sections to Their Profiles
LinkedIn announced today that users can now customize their profiles with five new profile sections: publications, languages, skills, certifications, and patents. “If you are an author, academic professional, or a researcher, your body of publications helps define you as a professional. With the Publications section, you can add your published work to your profile,” says [...]
October 15, 2010
Mozilla appoints Gary Kovacs as new CEO
Mozilla has appointed former Adobe executive Gary Kovacs as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. The appointment ends a nearly six-month search that began after John Lilly, who has been Mozilla’s chief executive for the last three years, announced that he would leave to join Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. “Gary [...]
October 10, 2010
Bing And Yahoo Lose Search Share In September
Google took 72.15% of the U.S. search market share in September, up from 71.59% in August, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. Bing powered search received 23.64 percent of searches for the month with Yahoo Search and Bing receiving 13.54 percent and 10.10 percent, respectively.
October 5, 2010
Twitter Introduces Promoted Accounts
Twitter has just announced Promoted Accounts. Twitter explains how Promoted Accounts are custom-selected for users: Promoted Accounts are suggested based on a user’s public list of whom they follow. When an advertiser promotes an account, Twitter’s algorithm looks at that account’s followers and determines other accounts that those users tend to follow. If a user [...]
January 7, 2011
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