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No, this has nothing to do with beer -- but maybe it should?

Reflecting on the Visitor Pattern

A few new articles are up on DotNetDevs; I contributed to this one about Reflection and the Visitor design pattern.  The DotNetDevs site has a high standard for articles, adhering to the quality over quanitity idea.  I like it.

On the subject of design patterns, it's been said “Never hire a programmer within 1 year of having read their first design patterns book.”  While it's not meant as a real hiring guideline, there is some truth in the observation.  The tendency to abuse and over-use patterns once you're first exposed to them is a common side effect; I know I went through my “everything can be solved with patterns” phase.

WeProgram.Net speaker (three sessions now, if you can believe it!) Steve Metsker has written a solid .Net guide to patterns: http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321126971.  It's better than the “other” stuff that is just copied from the Java world (i.e. Metsker took some time and really applied the patterns in C# instead of just changing the source code from Java to C# like “other” books have been known to do).

Happy .Netting!



Comments

Grant said:

My pleasure Brad . . . anything to help out a "techie with cats" developer in Colorado. My family still lives in Golden, Colorado and my wife and I have three cats ourselves.
# June 9, 2004 2:43 PM

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