From all my readings and research on OO design/patterns/principles I've found that the general consensus is that loose coupling (and high cohesion) is the almost always the better design. I complet...

What is a good way of dealing with objects and having them talk to each other? Up until now all my games hobby/student have been small so this problem was generally solved in a rather ugly w...

I had a debate with my co-worker on whether certain logic belongs in the data access or business logic layer. The scenario is, the BLL needs some data to work with. That data primarily live...

I'm creating an error manager for an API I'm work on. The idea is that it provides a single store of error codes that can be returned from the API, ensuring that the same error in different calls i...

Imagine that 90% of your job is merely to triage issues on a very massive, very broken website. Imagine that this website is written in the most tightly coupled, least cohesive PHP code you've ever...