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This book does more to serve as a foundation for communication, giving a common language for oft-repeated solutions. Martin fowler has a significant writing style. Some on the patterns in the book are obsolete but the as whole is still useful to read.... Read More
Most of the ideas back in 2002 were more object-oriented than what we have today. It goes beyond design patterns to show how to combine and implement the patterns in the real world. The only thing i regret is not to find creation-oriented patterns tha... Read More
This book is an exposition into architectural building blocks that will help every architect and tech lead / senior developer build code that is more extensible and easily maintained. Extend the longevity of your code by years.
Most of the action in software development revolves around databases and web pages. Fowler gives a fantastic presentation of how to design software using databases, distributed components, etc. Net mvc -. Net now supports mvc, services both in java an... Read More
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This book is an exercise in frustration.
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I am very impressed with the book condition
With this knowledge its much easier to utilize frameworks associated with the patterns and concepts
It would be great if amazon worked together with the publishers to make it clear when there is missing content somewhere in its... Read More
Updateas of may 3 2011 the issue with the missing figuresdiagrams seems to be fixed
Price
Gof is a must have too but if you can only have one
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Shame that some of the more interesting patterns like for accounting are only available on his website
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It is showing its age whats called a rich client vs a web guipresentation
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It was mentioned as good but its as good as a new book
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You have to have some programming experience or you miss most of the value of this book
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Dino referenced to eaa many times in his book
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This book is more academic and has more information about enterprise development
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This book is not for beginners
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If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you havent seen 12 of the patterns in this book then you are probably doing something wrong and this book could greatly help you
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