Next Meeting: September 2nd 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:30pm

August 11, 2009

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 2nd September 2009 at 6:30pm.

  • Alberto Borda – Facade pattern from GoF
  • Stewart Gleadow – running parallel algorithms on graphics cards using CUDA

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: August 5th 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:30pm

July 4, 2009

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 5th August 2009 at 6:30pm.

  • Phanni Kumar – Decorator pattern from GoF
  • Geoff Burns – F#

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: July 1st 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

June 8, 2009

Our next meeting will be on July 1st 2009 at 6:45pm.

  • Chris Bushell will lead a discussion on the Composite pattern.
  • Birger Halfmeier will lead a discussion on functional programming in .net.
  • Anubhav Berry will lead a discussion on functional Java.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: June 3rd 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

May 7, 2009

Our next meeting will be on June 3rd 2009 at 6:45pm.

  • Liz Douglass will lead a discussion on the Bridge pattern.
  • Richard Rothwell will lead a discussion on patterns of aspect oriented programming.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: March 6th 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

April 21, 2009

Our next meeting will be on March 6th 2009 at 6:45pm.

  • Russell Searle will lead a discussion on the Adapter pattern.
  • Paul Monks will lead will present Domain Neutral Archetype from Coad/FDD.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: April 1st 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

March 12, 2009

Our next meeting will be on April 1st 2009 at 6:45pm.

  • James Ladd will lead a discussion on the Singleton pattern.
  • Andy Bulka will lead a discussion on PureMVC.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Next Meeting: March 4th 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

March 1, 2009

Our next meeting will be on March 4th 2009 at 6:45pm.

  • David Kemp will lead a discussion on the Prototype pattern.
  • Chris Johnston will lead a discussion on the Strategy pattern.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


New Meeting Venue

February 1, 2009

Please note that the Melbourne Patterns Group will from now on be meeting at the new ThoughtWorks office: Level 15,  303 Collins Street,  Melbourne,  VIC 3000


Next Meeting: February 4th 2009 (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

December 9, 2008

There will not be a Melbourne Patterns meeting in January.
Our next meeting will be on February 4th 2009. This will include two presentations:

  • Factory Method by Geoff Burns
  • Design patterns support in Netbeans by Andy Bulka

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15,  303 Collins Street,  Melbourne,  VIC 3000


Next Meeting December 3rd (Wednesday) at 6:45pm

November 6, 2008

At this month’s meeting there will be a presentation by Chris Bushell on the Builder Pattern.  Details on the second presentation for the evening are still awaiting a volunteer.  Please monitor the mailing list for more details closer the the date.

Location: ThoughtWorks Office, 155 Queen Steet, Level 11, Melbourne 3001