As to the historic rationale, I can’t say for certain (because I didn’t design them). My thoughts on the matter are that early CPUs got their original program counter set to 0 and it was a natural desire to start the stack at the other end and grow downwards, since their code naturally grows upward. … Read more
Services come in 3 flavours: Domain Services, Application Services, and Infrastructure Services. Domain Services : Encapsulates business logic that doesn’t naturally fit within a domain object, and are NOT typical CRUD operations – those would belong to a Repository. Application Services : Used by external consumers to talk to your system (think Web Services). If … Read more
Update 2013-01-07: If you want to see a good mix of component-based game engine with the (in my opinion) superior approach of reactive programming take a look at the V-Play engine. It very well integrates QTs QML property binding functionality. We did some research on CBSE in games at our university and I collected some … Read more
Logical layers are merely a way of organizing your code. Typical layers include Presentation, Business and Data – the same as the traditional 3-tier model. But when we’re talking about layers, we’re only talking about logical organization of code. In no way is it implied that these layers might run on different computers or in … Read more
Use POST. In 2010, using GET was probably an acceptable answer. But today (in 2013), browsers will pre-fetch pages they “think” you will visit next. Here is one of the StackOverflow developers talking about this issue on twitter: I’d like to thank my bank for making log off a GET request, and the Chrome team … Read more