Breaking up with Singleton

In Steve Yegge’s Singleton Considered Stupid I found a friend to confirm my now near hatred for the so called singleton design pattern. I found myself callously using singleton to allocate an instance, and then never speaking to singleton or the instance again. [...]

Late Night Lego Fishing

It was able to pull the lego piece back up against the grate and I was hopeful that with a few more tries would be enough to have the lego sucked into the empty vacuum cleaner where it could easily be retrieved. [...]