What is your favorite design pattern?
I enjoyed perusing answers in the algorithm thread and thought it would be a good idea to start one for design patterns.
I rely on the simple factory pattern pretty frequently.
I rely on the simple factory pattern pretty frequently.
Keep it simple.
etc.
I worked on a social gaming project a long time ago and one guy we had on that project was a flash design to actionscript3 convert, so programming wasn't his strong suit. Someone bought him a book on design patterns and he tried to implement every damn one of them in the same piece of software. It was bullshit of a fantastic level - everytime I hear someone fantasizing about design patterns over writing just simple pragmatic software, I can't help but think about this.