http://www.FluffyCat.com/ FluffyCat.com en-us Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:19:02 EST larry@FluffyCat.com (Larry Truett) http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java/Casting/ Getting a String out of an ArrayList String StringName = (String)arrayListName.get(n); Getting a double out of an ArrayList (Stored in the ArrayList as a Double) double doubName = ((Double)arrayListName.get(n)).doubleValue(); Getting a... article359 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Flyweight/ About the Flyweight In the flyweight pattern instances of a class which are identical are shared in an implementation instead of creating a new instance of that class for every instance. This is done largely to assist performance, and works... article1049 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Decorator/ About the Decorator In the Decorator pattern, a class will add functionality to another class, without changing the other classes structure. In this example, the Book class will have its title shown in different ways by the BookTitleDecorator... article70 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Composite/ About the Composite In the Composite pattern an idividual object or a group of that object will have similar behaviors. In this example, the OneBook class is the individual object. The SeveralBooks class is a group of zero or more OneBook objects. Both... article62 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/State/ About the State In the State Pattern a class will change its behavior when circumstances change. In this example, the BookContext class holds an implementation of the BookTitleStateInterface, starting with BookTitleStateStars. BookTitleStateStars... article1068 http://www.FluffyCat.com/SQL/Tables/ The Tables Used on the FluffyCat.com SQL Reference and Example Site. Director_Film_Table Director_Last_Name - 30 Characters Director_First_Name - 30 Characters Film_Title - 50 Characters unique key - Director_Last_Name, Director_First_Name,... article147 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java-Design-Patterns/Factory-Method/ Factory Method Overview Methods to make and return components of one object various ways. In this example the SoupFactoryMethod defines the makeSoupBuffet method which returns a SoupBuffet object. The SoupFactoryMethod also defines the methods... article552 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java-Design-Patterns/Singleton/ Singleton Overview A class distributes the only instance of itself. In this example SingleSpoon class holds one instance of SingleSpoon in private static SingleSpoon theSpoon;andquot;. The SingleSpoon class determines the spoons availability... article576 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java-Design-Patterns/Builder/ Builder OverviewMake and return one object various ways. In this example the abstract SoupBuffetBuilder defines the methods necessary to create a SoupBuffet. BostonSoupBuffetBuilder and the HonoluluSoupBuffetBuilder both extend the SoupBuffetBuilder.... article539 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java-Design-Patterns/Abstract-Factory/ Abstract Factory (AKA Kit) Overview An abstract factory has sets of methods to make families of various objects. In this example the AbstractSoupFactory defines the method names and return types to make various kinds of soup. The BostonConcreteSoupFactory... article530 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java/Accessability/ ... comment268 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java/Casting/ Thank you for this useful sharing, , but you wrote lines from Getting a String out of an ArrayList to double to int two times. comment267 http://www.FluffyCat.com/SQL/MySQL-Database-Backup-With-PHP/ This program does rely on php having authority to create a file. Ive had the same permission problem before with PHP scripts and also when running the mysqldump command. Looking for backup tools I found MySQLBackupFTP (http://mysqlbackupftp.com). You... comment263 http://www.FluffyCat.com/COBOL/Initialize/ Also (as TheMadProfessor points out), there is a way to force specific values into specific field types... I use this on a regular basis when trying to dynamically get the number of occurences in a table/array. As opposed to having the value hard-coded... comment262 http://www.FluffyCat.com/COBOL/Initialize/ As a practice, if using to initialize a record area, I have always moved spaces to the record prior to the INITIALIZE as the initialize does not initialize FILLER areas (could be only on some compilers) 01 recorda. 05 key pic x(20). 05... comment261 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java/This-and-Super/ Thanks for your sharing. I learned this and super thanks to you. Very clean explanation. comment260 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/PHP-Performance-Tuning-if-VS-switch/ Orginal only 5 Performance Testing PHP if / else VS switch with 100,000 iterations total if / else time: 0.36938524246216 total case time: 0.37775444984436 if / else is quicker by 0.0083692073822021 I increased the code to 10 and the if /else... comment257 http://www.FluffyCat.com/Java-Design-Patterns/Abstract-Factory/ Great explanation and I agree with Boris, Congrat comment256 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/PHP-OO-Class-Basics/ create a class, create another class, show both classes - class addresses object here. comment254 http://www.FluffyCat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Command/ Hi There, First comment, good work. Few points of improvement 1. BookStarsOnCommand , BookStarsOffCommand both command missing constructor which sets BookCommandee object inside it self. If you add it can make clear understanding. 2. callCommand... comment253