North Texas Patterns Group

THIS NorthTexasPatternsGroup IS NOT ACTIVELY meeting. - If you are interested in helping make this group active again, I encourage you to join and post to the mailing list

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This is the local patterns group in North Texas (the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex).

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FYI: The patterns home page: http://hillside.net/patterns

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• The North Texas Patterns group regularly holds two study groups:

• One group just completed a pass through the book "Design Patterns"

• by Gamma, Johnson, Vlissides and Helm (a.k.a. the Gang of Four);

• One group studying distributed computing.

We typically meet on the second Tuesday and first Wednesday of each month.

• Monthly Meetings (typical) -> with current topic

The Tuesday group is on hiatus and isn't actively meeting

• Second Tuesday - Design pattern study group
  • *TBD* In hiatus

• First Wednesday - Architectural Design and Patterns study group

*TBD* In hiatus

-Dave-

P.S.

A good introduction to some object-oriented concepts and terms may be found in the publications section of Object Mentor's web site that contains many very good papers by Robert Martin:

http://www.objectmentor.com

There were some questions about patterns and frameworks. There are a number of papers available on the "hillside" site at:

http://www.hillside.net/patterns/papers/

There is a lot of good stuff there but, for starters, you may find these worthwhile:

• Jim Coplien:

  • "Software Design Patterns: Common Questions and Answers"

• Ralph Johnson:

  • "Documenting Frameworks Using Patterns"

• Kent Beck, Ralph Johnson:

  • "Patterns Generate Architectures"

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