A very useful article from Google’s Miško Hevery about the problems with the Singleton design pattern. Essentially, Singleton’s rely on a global instance variable which could point to any number of other variables, thus creating a global state. This causes problems when you want to test your code.

• Root Cause of Singletons
• Top 10 things which make your code hard to test

I’ve installed a new Wordpress Theme to freshen things up a bit. It’s called Spotlight and I think it’s a nice minimalist design, with enough flair to keep the page looking interesting.

Let me know what you think!