I borrowed the Fundamentals of Object Oriented Design book by Meiler Page-Jones from my campus library. I wanted to do a little reference lookup on UML class diagrams to better understand another related topic -Design Patterns. The author has a fantastic and simple style and it is one of those books that can distinguish the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
UML – Composition and Aggregation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aggregation, composition, UML on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Trip to Tirunallar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged God, Saneeshwara, Tamil Nadu, Tirunallar on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week i went to offer prayers at the temple of Lord Saneeshwara at Tirunallar. Tirunallar is a small town about 35 kilometers from Mayavaram. Mayavaram, also called Mayiladuturai, is an hour drive from Kumbakonam. Interestingly, Tirunallar falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Pondicherry though Pondicherry is no where near this place! Tirunallar is famous [...]
Thinking in C++
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bruce Eckel, C++, memory on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is one book that has completely blown me away! I have been seeing this book for years now but never read it partly because of the layout which i feel is clumsy. This book is not for someone who wants to learn the syntax of C++. There are many other books for that. I [...]
Day -1 Design Patterns
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Design Patterns, multitable insert, oracle on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started reading the Gang of Four (GOF) book today. The concept of design patterns is really nice. I like anything related to design and found design patterns both challenging and interesting. There is a fundamental difference between a framework and a toolkit. A toolkit is a related collection of classes for general purpose [...]
