A common, but mostly unconscious habit of software developers when theyface a problem is to break it down into its constituent elements, lookfor patterns of behavior and activity, and compare them to ...

Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

In a previous post I proposed that the differences between developing for embedded versus application-level systems are poorly distinguished and that, as an industry, we are paying an increasingly ...

In the object-oriented software community, an architectural pattern defines a fundamental structural organization or schema for a software system. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies ...