Melbourne Patterns Group

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

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

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

At this months meeting there will be a presentation by Brent Snook called  “Mopping Up With Groovy” which shows DSL’s in Groovy and the builder pattern.

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

This month we have two presentations:

• AbstractFactory pattern to be presented by Andrew Browne
• Mastering Requirements presentation/discussion by Gian Lorenzetto

Please monitor the mailing list for more details closer to the day:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melbourne-patterns/

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

This month we have two presentations:

• “State Design Pattern” to be presented by Andy Bulka with examples using  Flex 3 (with a touch of Flash CS3).
• The LISP language to be presented by James Ladd.

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

Next meeting
6:45pm at Thoughtworks Office, 155 Queen Street , Level 11, Melbourne 3000

Topics
First Session : Active Object by David Kemp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Object

It will have a lot of overlap with a talk I gave several years ago on
“Futures”, but I figure I can make it sufficiently different to not
bore those that attended that talk.

I will even try to give a couple of examples in Ruby to perhaps
attract some Ruby lovers along

Second Session : Jaxer: The Javascript server by John Sherwood

‘Is it any good and when would I use it?’ – Come find out!

John Sherwood is doing a talk on “Replace Type Code with Class” from http://www.industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/typeCodeWithClass.html

Martin Ellis is doing a talk on “The Shibboleth System, a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.”

Next Meeting (Wednesday, June 4th at 6:45 pm)
First Session (Refactoring to Patterns):

“Extract Adapter / Unify Interfaces with Adapter” by Ben Marsh

Second Session:

“The Pecha Kucha of javascript” by James Ladd
James would be showing us javascript syntax and the contrast same with other languages like Ruby, Smalltalk and Java.

Last month’s meeting was cancelled due to the crazy weather we had.
Next Meeting : Wednesday, May 7th @ 6:45pm
Location: ThoughtWorks Office, 155 Queen Steet, Level 11, Melbourne 3001

First Session (Refactoring to Patterns) : Replace Conditional Dispatcher with Command

Second Session: How to use Google Maps in your application by Krishnan Ramanathan