Hello all,
Today begins the four-day promo for Dating Design
Patterns. The original work by the Gang of Four and their friends, written in college, where they became dating maniacs. As Christopher Alexander, a TA at the same institute of higher learning, said at the time, "Do you have any idea how unusual that is, for guys who read Knuth for fun?"
So in "Dating Design Patterns," it is revealed that the true genius from the Gang of Four was not how to create elegant enterprise software systems.
It was Trojan Proxy.
It was Encapsulated Big Fat Opening.
It was most definitely Half Bad Boy Plus Protocol.
It was Dating Design Patterns. With assistance from Christopher Alexander, whose personal dating diaries were recently discovered in a garage sale in Poughkeepsie. Also includes the Gang's own hand-written notes in the margins as they continued to
test and refine their patterns.
You can read excerpts at
www.datingdesignpatterns.com, and you can ask questions right here of me, Solveig, the editrix and connection to the fifth member of the Gang of Four who brought me the original manuscript.
Books are also available at Softpro, Nerdbooks, soon from Powell's, and direct from me through the excellent printers at
www.cafepress.com/datingpatterns Ask away!
Solveig
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gangofone@datingdesignpatterns.com "I laughed so hard I dropped my copy in the bathtub." ~ Alistair Cockburn, author of "Agile Software Development"
"Dating Design Patterns", for the geek who has everything.
www.datingdesignpatterns.com Available at SoftPro, Nerdbooks, and Powell's Technical Bookstore
And through
www.cafepress.com/datingpatterns