3 blog posts tagged design patterns

Changing type, the state pattern and LINQ to SQL

A question I see from time-to-time on LINQ to SQL relates to changing an entity’s class.

ActiveRecord, the ugly design pattern

I first encountered the Gang of Four Design Patterns book back in 2001 when a friend lent me a copy. I didn’t immediately get it, most likely because my object oriented experience up to that point consisted primarily of small Delphi applications.

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

While a big fan of patterns I found the original Gang of Four (GoF) book a little dry and so had left the pattern books alone until Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PEAA), got referenced so many times on-line I gave in and purchased a copy. I’m glad I did, even if the examples are mostly in Java with the very occasional one in C#.