Today we’re looking over a book that is oft-cited as a fan favorite for object-oriented design: Design Patterns. Many computer science students see it during their software engineering course, although my first exposure to it was relatively recently. But while many others love this book, it just didn’t hit me the same way.
Programming concurrent or distributed software has always been a difficult problem, so to brush up on the “best practices” in the field I picked up Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects. In contrast to books I’ve previously reviewed, this book has some incredibly strong points and some incredibly weak points (and ends up a little above average I suppose).
