During my recent move away from wordpress to get CodeBlahger up and running I was faced with a number of technical challenges, not the least of which being how in the world I was going to take several years of posts stored in a MariaDB instanc

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Of the 23 design patterns outlined in the GoF book, one I find myself reaching for time and time again is the façade pattern. In fact, I was making use of this design pattern before I even knew that the technique employed was called the

When implementing any type of programming language, be it a enterprise scale systems language like Java, a small Domain Specific Language and practically anything in between there is a myriad of design decisions to be made that will influence the overa

When it comes to parsing expressions many, many books will cover addition, subtraction, and multiplication, often times leaving the implementation of division, exponents and square root "as an exercise for the reader". This is done to keep tex