Fluent methods are a hot design idea and they can improve the readability of your code. However, they only make sense in specific scenarios. Here are some criteria to help you decide if you should be ...

The Visitor design pattern provides flexibility in your designs by enabling you to define a new operation without needing to change the types of the elements on which it would operate The Visitor ...

One of the comments that cropped up in response to my column on commenting raised a key question: When descriptive method names get very long, do they actually help make your code easier to read? If, ...