Sep 8, 2015 · The descriptor 'Engine' gets thrown around a lot: graphics engine, RegEx engine, AI engine, etc. but what actually makes a piece of software an Engine? Design, Input/Output, Purpose, …

Mar 24, 2011 · I always look at composition as 'needs a', i.e. a car needs an engine, and I look at aggregation as 'things related for a purpose'. So staying with the car analogy, my aggregation may …

May 9, 2024 · As with most things in software engineering, it's about deciding between trade-offs. The net effect should be code that is significantly easier to test, or significantly easier to understand — …

I'm reading the book "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" by Robert C. Martin. When he talks about the Dependency Inversion Principle he gives the following example of...

I built a rules engine a year or so ago that accepted Linq expressions for business rules. You can run a Visitor over the resulting expression tree, and it will provide a complete logging sequence when you …

Aug 24, 2019 · 1 I am currently working on a Physics Engine in C++. The Physics Engine is for a sandbox video game. I want to build a powerful physics engine, so therefore, it needs to be very …

Aug 26, 2011 · A workflow engine is useful when you need to go from a start to a finish but there are many different paths/logic/rules to get there. For example, let's say I write a program that publishes …

Feb 8, 2023 · Rules engine suggestion for hard coded if-then-else Reposting question as Previous post on same Topic was not clear. Currently our financial application receives multiple feeds in csv format …

Sep 22, 2016 · Incorporated into the cart is a rules engine (either homebrew or some product), right? When a user adds an item to the cart, the rules-engine kicks in as part of the business logic and …

Whenever I ask a question about game development in an online forum I always get suggestions like learning line drawing algorithms, bit level image manipulation and video decompression etc. However