Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Design Patterns

I have started taking a serious look at design patterns. If you google Design Patterns check out the wiki - there is loads of info contained in there and it is a good starting place. I started a book group at work and we are slated to start reading "Head First Design Patterns". So far myself and a couple of other developers are reading ahead - most seem excited.

A friend of mine went to a c# course taught by Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo (Blog at:http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog/). The course taught my friend a great deal about test driven development and design patterns. In just a week I saw his programming ability skyrocket.

I have started trying to use design patterns in my applications - all I can say is spend most of your time thinking. The design patterns require extra effort in forethought and minimal effort for implementation.

thats all for now ~ peace

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