Exploring Extreme Programming
Structured Design. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Prentice-Hall, 1979. This was one of the early structured “standard works” that I’ve only just gotten to for the first time. I’d learned things like coupling and cohesion, afferent and efferent flows, Continue reading Review – Structured Design
Set-based concurrent engineering: considering a solution as the intersection of a number of feasible parts, rather than iterating on a bunch of individual “point-based” solutions. Continue reading Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
Sample chapter – Adapter. Continue reading Design Patterns in Java – Sample Chapter – Adapter
Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. It covers the same 23 Continue reading Review – Design Patterns in Java
Game Design – Theory & Practice (2/e), Richard Rouse III. Wordware, 2005. This book is a somewhat sprawling look at game design. Its focus is on electronic games. It covers “what players want,” gameplay, artificial intelligence, story-telling, and game documentation Continue reading Review – Game Design
Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Design patterns and refactoring have been related for a long time. (Consider that Ralph Johnson, one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, was a sponsor of the work that created the original refactoring Continue reading Review – Refactoring to Patterns
Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark. MIT Press, 2000. Modularity creates value both at the level of systems and at the level of organizations. Baldwin and Clark describe a number of Continue reading Review – Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
What can you do with only one button? Continue reading One-Button Games
As a result of Kent Beck’s “Programming Intensive” workshop, Kent, Joseph Leddy, and I created a paper on one small aspect of design. Continue reading Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design
Kent Beck’s Programming Intensive Workshop Continue reading Kent Beck’s “Programming Intensive” Workshop