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Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
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Rating:  - Good ideas, but needs refactoring
There are a lot of nuggets of wisdom in the book, especially in the pragmatic approach the author takes to refactoring and patterns. He admits that patterns can make code worse, or better, depending on the need and skill of the author. He also provides a number of clear examples. However, the style of the book is like the dull works I had to read in graduate school, unnecessarily littered with citations. He cites Fowler to such an obscene degree that it looks more like academic backslapping. Citations are fine when doing a review of literature or examining research, but when they are used for mere quotations, the style is intrusive. As a final complaint, I found that I could often read a whole page and reduce it to one or two sentences. Curiously, he cites an example of Benjamin Franklin trimming a long phrase down to a single person's name. I wish he would have refactored the book in the same way. Almost all programming practices books suffer in the same way: dull, ungodly verbose, academic, and making unnecessary deviations from the point at hand. My suggestion is to get good at skimming, and you will find this book to be worthwhile.
Rating:  - The Joy of Clean Up Reaches the Design Level
Clean up (refactoring) is fun. Clean up to the design level (patterns) is stunning. A very pragmatic introduction, down to the code and incredibly helpful. Even strong procrastinators develop an appetite for this often little loved part of our work.
Now what are the prerequisites: You should have read and maybe even handy the landmark book "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler and colleagues. You need a working knowledge of design patterns. You have to actually like real code. Everything else is contained in this beautiful book.
The writing style is lucid and the topic is explained in a refactoring fashion: Readers are guided through the subject with real code (somewhat simplified) in small steps at a slow speed step by step. It is amazing how much ground you cover this way and how fast.
I do highly recommend this book for every software developer.
Rating: - Combines Refactoring and Patterns
A master-piece and a must-read art-work. When I was studying on Martin Fowler's Refactoring to make my code more comprehensive and improve its clarification, I see, Martin Fowler's techiques are generalized techniques, I found Joshua Kerievsky's techiques in Refactoring to Patterns are more specific techiques concern of purely Design Patterns. While Design Patterns itself high-level abstracted, it is easy to find concrete examples in Recfactoring to Patterns and that makes programmer easy to understand Design Patterns. Special thanks to Joshua Kerievsky and to his study group for a this kind of work.
Rating: - the best design pattern book
this is definitely the best book about design pattern I have ever read.
but this book is not telling you what a pattern is and how to use this pattern; instead, it shows some inappropriate designed structure and explains what might be the reason of the inappropriate design, then suggests one pattern to help you out. it's an excellent idea to describe a pattern and the samples are interesting.
moreover, the book is paperback, thin, small, easy to carry, what else can u ask for :D
Rating: - Great book, get it if you do design.
Well done book, and a valuable next-step in learning about design patterns. The original GOF presents them in isolated and rather sterile format and manner, this book adds a much richer context and analysis in actually using them in application refactorings.
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