Meeting Reminder!

[Mel Riffe]

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It's Tomorrow!

For those of us not going to RubyNation this will be an opportunity to see one of the speakers slated to present.

Here's the summary:

John Athayde: The Timeless Way of Building

"Design patterns" is a common phrase that is often spoken in the course of design and development of web applications. But it's genesis is not from programming, but Architecture. They come from a trio of books in the 1970s by Christopher Alexander, the most famous of which is the middle book: "A Pattern Language". The issue arises that Pattern Languages, much like spoken languages, are most effective when the speaker is fluent. We'll look at the origin of pattern languages and why they can be dangerous and even detrimental tools in the hands of the inexperienced designer and developer through examples of bad grammar and poor idiomatic choices (aka antipatterns), and perhaps some architecture as well.

RSVP at meetup.com, if you can. And remember: Spread the word and bring a friend.

See you there!

--Mel