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When:      Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Topic:     Four (More) Patterns You Should Know
Speaker:   Kevlin Henney
Time:      7:00pm
Where:     eBay Town Hall (next to PayPal/eBay)
               2161 North First St
               San Jose, CA 95131
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/cdg5u/>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

"The enormous success of design patterns is a testimonial to the
commonality seen by object programmers. The success of the book
Design Patterns, however, has stifled any diversity in
expressing these patterns." This quote from Kent Beck highlights
the success of patterns that began with a recognition and growth
of common design vocabulary, but pulls few punches in noting
that in many cases this growth has stalled. Many developers who
have come across the concept of design patterns have a
relatively narrow pattern vocabulary centered on a handful of
patterns from the Gang of Four -- and all too often one centered
on (or collapsing into) the singularity of Singleton.

This talk focuses on four common OO design patterns that can
improve the stability, extensibility, testability, coupling and
cohesion of an application or framework architecture. Of course,
the gregarious nature of patterns, the interwoven nature of
design and the discursive nature of the speaker's presentation
style means that more than four patterns will be touched on! The
four patterns of the title simply offer roots for and routes
into
discussion.

Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the
UK. He has developed and delivered training courses, consultancy
and software across a number of domains ever since getting
involved in professional software development in the late
1980s. Kevlin is a regular speaker at conferences, a contributor
to the Boost libraries, and a past and present columnist for
various treeware and online magazines, including C++ Report, CUJ
and Reg Developer. Kevlin is the coauthor, with Frank Buschmann
and Doug Schmidt, of two new volumes in Wiley's Pattern-Oriented
Software Architecture series.

Kevlin's consulting company is Curbralan Limited, which he
founded in 2000. Its url is <http://www.curbralan.com/>

The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers please
email Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com

Walter Vannini
<http://www.accu-usa.org/>
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