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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Entering the Gang of Four

I finally got the chance to start reading the the Gang of Four Designs Patterns book. This book was written in 1995 and I can see where it is still relevant today.
It was interesting to see reference about the MVC pattern which is so dominant to day. What was interesting was that MVC emerged for work with the smalltalk language. Today we see it in ASP.NET MVC,Monorail,and the spring framework.
The book uses C++ to show examples of the 23 patterns. The java programmers can read the book Head First Design Patterns to see examples using the java language.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Software Architect 2009 conference - part II

The Software Architect 2009 conference has ended, and there are some some interesting slides available on the conference's site. Mark you most of these presentations focus on Microsoft technology.

Slides can be found at http://www.software-architect.co.uk/slides/