On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 01:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I talked to my colleague who wants to attend, and it's the 2nd and 4th > Saturdays that he's free. So, if it's OK with everybody else, I'd like > to suggest doing the 2nd and 4th. > > If we go with that, the next meeting day would be next Saturday, the > 23rd of February, or else the 9th of March. I'm was thinking about > this... > maybe we could establish March 9th as the first "real" meeting, but > since > Brent apparently has the conference room for next Sat. maybe we could > go ahead and get together, kinda informally and chat for a while.
I think this is an excellent idea. It will give everyone some time to get whatever book and look it over, but will also give us a chance to meet and discuss what we want out of the meetings. > Well, I haven't heard any objection to that, so I guess so, basically. > The > only thing that comes > to mind is the possibility of doing what the Boulder patterns group did. > They started with > a different patterns book: "DesignPatternsExplained: A New Perspective > on > Object Oriented Design", > written by AlanShalloway and JamesTrott. Apparently it's considered > more > of an introductory > level book on the subject? So, might we want to do that, then go on to > the > GoF book? Or > would you guys just want to jump into the GoF right away? Maybe that's > something we > could discuss this coming Sat., if we have a "prelim" meeting. I would suggest starting with the intro book might be better, but that is just me. I imagine the GOF book would be fine as well. I guess we need a consensus here or in a prelim meeting. Bill
