So how are design pattern working for you?

A confession. I never did manage to make design pattern work for me. A disclaimer. I don’t think that this is because design patterns are in any way “wrong” or “bad”. Yes, I do use them occasionally and Yes, I do know a fair share of them. However, I always have this nagging feeling that I should know more patterns, and at the end of the day, when I’m actually designing my systems I rarely go: “ahmm I can use the XXXX pattern to do this”. So why is this so? why after so many years of using design patterns talking about patterns and even arguing quite a lot about them, I still can’t make them work for me? I wonder… The human brain as a pattern matching machine Start of July I attended at Vipul Kocher session during the SIGIST...

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Agile Practitioner IL– First Meeting

First group meeting went great. (Here is the group forming) Thank you all for coming and participating Elad Sofer which seems to be enjoying himself here, just blogged about it and I couldn’t have said it any better than myself. I will only talk about the second part of the meeting. During this part, we tried to get a feeling on where the group would like to take this forum/meeting/activity. W attempted to gather some ideas on the following: What content would we like to discuss How we would like o conduct these sessions who would we like to hear talking. and after some discussion and debate: Here are our main “finding” Topics of Interest The four winning topics are: Continuous Deployment Agile for...

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TDD .NET Course

Next month (starting on August the 8th) (Starting on August the 14th) I’ll be conducting a public “TDD .NET” course . Registration is now open for everyone, so go here and book your place. The course TDD.NET is based on practical experience and lesson learnt gathered over the past several years. The course main goal is teach basic concepts of TDD practitioners while giving participants enough practical knowledge to start practicing on their o...

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