The singleton is probably the best known of the GoF Design Patterns, it’s also the most controversial. I try avoid using singletons in my code when I can but since the singleton is a very simple but powerful pattern I sometimes sin against the decoupling gods and use one or two of them. Lots of stuff has been written about creating singletons. In this post I want to show you how properly use a singleton and contain most of the damage singletons do.

This post was inspired by a Twitter discussion I had with @LaTtEX who blogs here

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While cycling home from work today I was listening to the Deep Fried Bytes episode with Rico Mariani. I should have been warned by his introduction; “He has an analogy for everything”. But since he seems to be a smart person the good old “Software engineering is just like structural engineering” caught me by surprise. I thought we ditched that one together with the waterfall process.

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I had a problem on XP Embedded running a vb-script file with wscript. Creating a shell object and calling the run method gave me a permission denied error (error number '800a0046') even when I was running as administrator. It didn't matter what I was trying to run. Even notepad.exe gave me this error. I've seen more people post questions about similar errors around the internet but I never found a usable answer so I thought I'd share the solution I worked out myself.

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If you're having trouble reading my blogposts it's not your fault. It seems I'm so abstact and theoretical in my communication that I have trouble communicating my visions to other people.

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