[lug] (OT) Boulder Patterns Group

[Rob Judd]

The Boulder Patterns Group is a study group that meets twice a month to
discuss design patterns in OO programming.  In the past we have covered
the classic GoF book, and the first POSA book.  We are about to start
Martin Fowler's, "Patterns of Enterprise Architecture" and now would be a
great time to join us - our first meeting of the Fall is October 7th.

For those who are unfamiliar, design patterns are a way to abstract
certain relations between classes and objects in your code.  This helps
you to recognise what is going on; promotes reuse of code; simplifies
implementation; and much, much more.  I even find the ideas useful in
functional programming.

If you are interested, then please see the announcement below.  All are
welcome.  More information may be found at http://BoulderPatternsGroup.org/

Cheers, Rob

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:32:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: rjudd at mlug.missouri.edu
To: Boulder Patterns Group <designpatstudy at lists.community.tummy.com>
Subject: [DesignPat] First meeting of the Fall - 7th October


Dear Boulder Patterns Group members,

Our first meeting of the Fall will be Tuesday 7th October in ECCR 108 of
the Engineering Complex at CU-Boulder.  We will be starting a new book:
Martin Fowler's "Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture".  This
book is about enterprise application design.  From the preface:

"Enterprise applications are about the display, manipulation, and storage
of large amounts of often complex data and the support or automation of
business processes with that data.  Examples include reservation systems,
financial systems, supply chain systems, and many others that run modern
business.

...

[The book is written] for programmers, designers, and architects who are
building enterprise applications and who want to improve either their
understanding of architectural issues or their communication about them."

The first part of the book (up to page 106) is a set of narrative chapters
on important topics in the design of enterprise applications.  The
chapters introduce various problems in this architecture, and their
solutions, without going in to much detail.  The remainder of the book are
the detailed solutions, organized as patterns, with examples in Java and
C#.

Sarah has suggested that we all read through the first section (to page
106) by the first meeting, and then we can discuss this material to set
the context for the rest of the book.  I'm sure we will refer back to this
material regularly as we go over each problem, so it will be a good idea
to be familiar with it.

A few announcements:

 - After a number of complaints that the Boulder Patterns Group area on
the wiki at c2.com has become a "WalledGarden" (look that up at
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WalledGarden) I am moving the web site to
http://BoulderPatternsGroup.org/  The main page links to a wiki that has
some of the old pages there now.  I am still in the process of moving
things over.  The biggest problem with this is that it won't have the vast
sea of pages that may be linked to, but I'm working on that one.  Please
add yourself to the new site.

 - I have some O'Reilly "Hacks" books to give out as door prizes for the
first meeting.  Please come win one, and write a review for it.

We look forward to seeing you there.

 - Rob Judd
 - Sarah Smith
 - Tim Kemper


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