Kata2: The Decorator Pattern

 

This the second part of the series of Coding Kata’s. Here we’ll explore the Decorator pattern.

This is the user story:

You need to send alerts to your customers when a new product is available. 
An Alert is represented by the Alert Class:

public class Alert
{
      public String DestinationAddress { get; set; }
      public String SenderAddress { get; set; }
      public String Content { get; set; }
      public string Log { get; set; }
}

Classes used to send the Alerts implement the following interface:

public interface ISender
{
        void Send(Alert alert);
}

 

  • Create an Alerter class that send the appropriate alerts.  
  • Alerts are always send by e-mail.
  • Customers can also subscribe to receive alerts via sms and/or through messenger. 
  • Use the Decorator pattern to configure the Alerter

    You do not need to use real infrastructure code to send the alert, just append a string that contains the Sender through which the message was send.
    ->Append the following text to the Alert.Log when the message is send by:
  • e-mail      : “Message was send by e-mail”
  • sms         : “Message was send by sms”
  • messenger: “Message was send by messenger”

 

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Coding Kata on design patterns: Kata1, The Abstract Factory Pattern

 

This post is the first in a series dedicated to Coding Kata’s and design patterns.  

Because I’m not always able to remember all the patterns I decided to learn by practice.  

Every week I will try to create a Kata with a simple problem that has to be resolved with one of the Gov’s design patterns.  

Because I want to start smoothly we’ll start with one of the simplest pattern -> the Abstract Factory.

Kata1 ->

- A product has a property Name.  

- Because the Name is used as an identifier it can’t be changed.  

- We need to be able to construct 2 products with following names: Product1, Product2.

- Use the abstract factory pattern so that you’re able to create Products.

 

This is my solution for Kata1.

 

 

Sharepoint 2007 Certification Guide

Here under you can find two usefull ressources to prepare for the exam:

 

-       The Wrox book: Professional Sharepoint 2007 Development

 

-       The Blog of: Adam Roderick

 

By focusing primarily on these two resources I managed to pass the Sharepoint Certification with what could be considered a ‘high score’.