{"id":507,"date":"2009-10-26T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T03:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-10-26T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T03:07:31","slug":"design-patterns-15th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/design-patterns-15th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Design Patterns&#8221; 15th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 15 years since the publication of the seminal Gang of Four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsonhighered.com\/educator\/product\/Design-Patterns-Elements-of-Reusable-ObjectOriented-Software\/9780201633610.page\"><em>Design Patterns<\/em><\/a> book. Since I was a reviewer of the original manuscript and also have a quote on the back cover of the book, the publisher recently asked me if I would write my thoughts about how I view the book today and how I think it&#8217;s affected software development over the past 15 years. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1399235\">my essay<\/a> along with essays by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1402447\">Linda Rising<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1398916\">Josh Bloch<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/promotions\/promotion.aspx?promo=137416\">15th anniversary web page<\/a> for the book. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1404056\">an interview with the authors<\/a> linked there, which I found interesting in part because of the similarity between what the authors say about patterns and functional languages and what I wrote in my essay on the same topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 15 years since the publication of the seminal Gang of Four Design Patterns book. Since I was a reviewer of the original manuscript and also have a quote on the back cover of the book, the publisher recently asked me if I would write my thoughts about how I view the book today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,125],"tags":[151,187],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-commentary","category-patterns","tag-book","tag-patterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}