My First Ruby on Rails Application!

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I just published my first Ruby on Rails (RoR) application onto my development server – my MacBook Pro.  Learning RoR should prove to be interesting, as the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern is automatically used when setting up the application.  This first app is no more than the equivalent of the “Hello, World” app in some … Read more

Implementing a Factory Pattern in ASP.NET

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A question posed by @Ramsharma1234 on Twitter this morning asked how to implement Factory Patterns in ASP.NET. (definition of Factory Pattern) Below is what would be considered a very basic form of Factory Pattern.  This method will essentially instantiate a generic Object, which is the parent of all types of Objects, and later be treated … Read more