OH MY GAWD

I hate IE. IE6 especially. Trying to create this semantic homepage for some corp, and I haven't solved one bug before the next one pops up. I just had to scream.

Seriously, IE puts the oopid in stoopid. I mean c'mon... The peek-a-boo bug??? Are you kidding me? Not fixed in *any* of the hundreds of patches that stream into windows!?

Most of my problems come from IE's weird layout problem, which the holly-hack was made for. Still every now and...

In the previous parts we saw what encapsulation and encapsulate what varies means. This last part takes a helicopter view of encapsulation and how it is central to a lot of problems in our daily code.

I was going to write about how various design patterns are designed to solve common problems when I ran into an excellent article by Tom Lauren, over at his weblog www.tomlauren.com. In the article posted below, he writes about design patterns in general, but quickly advances to an overview...

In part 1 - Basic encapsulation we discussed what encapsulation means and why it is an important concept that promotes readable, flexible and maintainable code. In this part we'll see where we can apply that concept; the 'varies' part of 'encapsulate what varies'.

Technically, Encapsulating what varies really means:
Replacing conditional logic and clauses by an interface and then vary the implementation with concrete classes

If that's not entirely clear, don't...

If you ever worked with a team of people you probably know how hard it is to maintain existing code that someone else has written, how people tend to copy 'n paste all over the place and not recognize that they are basically dropping time bombs, ironically, to keep their own deadlines...

Take a regular day from my current job:

I'm working on a new product for some insurance company and this product has a 5 step selling-process with a steps-indicator on the right. Sounds...

An extremely important and useful concept is that of encapsulation; it has direct impact on cohesion, decoupling, integrity, reusability and results in better readable and maintainable code. Exactly what is it, why do you need it and how can you achieve this? Read this three-part article series.

Encapsulation basically means nothing more than restricting access to a class's methods and properties. The power however lies in the intention:

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