The post is down, so I can’t comment on that, but getting rid of singletons was the single most effective thing I did to improve my software design. I also summ

The post is down, so I can’t comment on that, but getting rid of singletons was the single most effective thing I did to improve my software design. I also summed up my objections to the singleton pattern in a blog post: http://zmotula.tumblr.com/post/1390385240 http://zmotula.tumblr.com/post/1390385240 There’s also a blog post called Singletons Are Pathological Liars by Miško Hevery, which is very well thought-out and contains links to other related topic: http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathological-liars/ http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathologic... Hope that helps somebody, reading Hevery’s articles was a huge eye-opener for me.