I would like to close this thread with LOTS of THANK YOUS to Gunther who
gave me tons of very valuable information on the subject. I am still in
the process of digging my way through design patterns, but still at the
'huh?' stage but am optimistic that very soon will have the 'Aha!' as
the intro to the book says :)
<hint> to perl/oop gurus (Damian, if you are listening): Time is ripe
for a modern design patterns in perl book </hint>
best,
bakki
Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> The download link may be old. You might want to go to the extropiaperl
> project on SourceForge and get latest code using anonymous CVS.
> Also, in the last 2 months we really revamped the architecture to change
> from a central control loop to action handlers where a stream of action
> objects where the application is defined by the order and process through
> which the action handlers get processed. This is similar to the Struts
> project for the Java Servlet API on java.apache.org.
>
> It turns out to be a fairly powerful model that has increased our
> productivity even more.
>
> >In addition, Webware will give me some real world apps to look at to get
> >a sense of how CoR, flyweight etc are implemented, especially in Perl.
> >This is right on the money as far as what I am trying to learn.
>
> That was part of our intention. We didn't really spend a LOT of time on
> design patterns, but certainly they had a strong influence.
>
> > > There have been tons of articles and books on Design Patterns since GoF
> >
> >Any specific web design patterns book you would recommend?
>
> If i was back home in the USA I could probably give you quite a few. As it
> is, I am afraid that I've just relying on articles here and there in the
> last 2 years because I never took my entire library with me when I moved to
> London and then to Singapore... I've been traveling more lightweight.
>
> GoF did not introduce Model-View-Controller architecture. But it is
> discussed in Wiley's "A System of Patterns: Pattern-Oriented Software
> Architecture".
>
> I think Addison-Wesley has a series of books based on the Pattern Languages
> symposia over the last many years which gives an overview.
>
> Any article by PJ Plauger I've ever read is pretty good. You can look a lot
> of his stuff up by searching the web for his name plus patterns.
>
> Malveau and Mowbray's CORBA Design Patterns is a really good book for
> anyone doing distributed programming even if it's not CORBA.
>
> The Pattern Almanac from Addison-Wesley doesn't really describe patterns
> all that well but it does provide a lot of references to existing works and
> provides very very short but easy to read summaries of many patterns out there.
>
> The cool thing about the Pattern Almanac is that it has a lot of patterns
> that are not idomatic to OO but apply to many situations.
>
> For example, it even has a section on "Patterns for Designing in Teams"...
> which include Multiple Competing Designs, Decision Document,
> Creator-Reviewer, Master-Journeyman, and Ad-Hoc Corrections....
>
> Thanks,
> Gunther
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