Firstly, Thanks for last month presenters – Geoff Burns and Gian Lorenzetto
Geoff spoke on “Move Accumulation to Collecting Parameter ” . The example used in the discussion was based on book example around replacing string concatenation with well composed methods which accumulate the result using a string buffer. We had some interesting discussion contrasting Collecting Parameter against the Visitor.
Gian did a great job of reviewing Kent Beck’s recent ‘Implementation Patterns’ book. The book contains lot of anecdotes and
paragraphs about good development practices often at a method level. The book seemed to lack code examples or diagrams often assumed to be present in a ‘Patterns’ book. But the paragraphs seemed thought provoking and often had to be read several times to grasp the thinking behind it. Overall Gian recommended the book to everyone.
Next Meeting – March 5th
First Session: Replace Implicit Tree with Composite / Replace One/Many Distinctions with Composite by Andy Bulka
Second Session: Realize the Interpreter through Selenium – David Kemp
David will be walking us through the selenium source code and illustrate its use of the Interpreter pattern.
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