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Design Patterns Quick Reference

28 11 2007

So every time I am designing something new I find myself either searching Google or opening up a gang of four (GoF) book to aid me. I searched for a bit trying to find a handy-dandy flash card showing class diagrams and purposes for the basic GoF patterns but was unable to locate a good one (for free). So I made my own.If you see any mistakes or improvements please post here and I will update the docs.

There are multiple formats you can download in:

PDF Cards: Get it!

Poster: Get it!

Page 1:

Design Patterns Quick Reference (Page 1)

Page 2:

Design Patterns Quick Reference (Page 2)

Enjoy!

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Date : 28 November 2007
Categories : Software

83 responses to “Design Patterns Quick Reference”

22 01 2008: Mark Gregory Turansky » Blog Archive » Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards (14:02:12) :

[…] Click here to view the high-resolution printable images. […]
22 01 2008: Andrew (22:32:19) :

Great, great job. This same project was on my list of things to do. But now you’ve done it for me! Yes, I would love to have the Visio file. Thanks so much.
22 01 2008: Jason McDonald (22:37:03) :

Thanks. You can download the visio file ***DELETED - GET THE PDF ABOVE***.
23 01 2008: Renaud (03:25:05) :

Thanks!
23 01 2008: Spacebat (06:26:25) :

JPEG is not a good format for crisp diagrams such as this. PNG or GIF would do a better job.

Good content though, thanks!
23 01 2008: Jason McDonald (08:51:43) :

Spacebat - thanks. I originally posted this before I moved to my own server so I was limited in what I was allowed to upload but I have included the Visio file in a comment above. The jpg is crisp but at the cost of size - each is close to 2MB…

I will see about replacing with a PNG (I have one already…)

*** Update ***

So I looked at the PNG and it is even larger than the JPG but the same image size and resolution so I am just going to stick with the JPG. If you guys have any problems printing (fuzziness or anything) let me know and I will see what I can do.
23 01 2008: JMD (10:25:06) :

I agree with Spacebat — Presenting vector diagrams like this in a lossy image format like JPEG is not the best practice, file size issues or otherwise. Even better than PNG or GIF would be PDF.
23 01 2008: someguy (10:26:05) :

convert to 16 or 32 color palette, run png through pngout…. presto
23 01 2008: JMD (10:29:03) :

Follow-up: If you are looking for an easy way to get PDF output, here is a free open-source tool that is available for Windows:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
23 01 2008: Jason McDonald (10:37:54) :

Thanks for all the feedback. I added two links to the original post, 1 for a PDF version and 1 for a Visio version.
23 01 2008: JMD (10:46:24) :

Many thanks for the PDF (Mac/Linux user)!
23 01 2008: Jason McDonald (10:50:13) :

Np

Sometimes forget how many people are using non-windows env’s…
23 01 2008: Weng Rodrigo (12:06:15) :

Great Stuff! Thanks for sharing!
23 01 2008: Ross Martin (14:07:26) :

Thanks!
24 01 2008: Diego Carrion (09:28:17) :

Very nice!
26 01 2008: Marc (05:44:41) :

Via hotlink de del.icio.us, descobreixo la pàgina de McDonaldLand (en anglès).
26 01 2008: DavidTan (06:34:10) :

Thanks a lot! Loving It!
28 01 2008: YoungSu (02:33:54) :

Thanks. your passion about gof DP.
I want to share this resource with korea programmer.
(sure, i share your blog. thanks! your passion!!)
29 01 2008: Martin (20:43:48) :

very great job have you done… the visio link is broken but the PDF all we need
29 01 2008: Jason McDonald (20:45:14) :

Thanks - sorry about the broken link. I just removed it.
30 01 2008: Jose Noheda (05:13:45) :

Thank you. Very useful
30 01 2008: Milo Felipe (06:17:04) :

Thanks!
30 01 2008: Design Patterns Quick Reference | foojam.com (07:30:02) :

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30 01 2008: Gavin (07:50:02) :

Thanks a lot for sharing. Good job.
30 01 2008: pallav (07:58:26) :

This is good thinking man!! This will help the whole lot of java developers. I will hyperlink this page from our company blog site.
30 01 2008: Dab Snooper (09:04:58) :

Thanks a lot!

I’ll point my colleagues to this page!
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30 01 2008: RK (10:32:26) :

Very nice!
30 01 2008: “Design Patterns”-Cheat Sheet » Zustandsforschung (10:57:05) :

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30 01 2008: dan (12:19:41) :

Very nice! Thanks. There are a few typos in the document of the word “Concreate”
30 01 2008: JW (12:31:32) :

Many thanks, it’s now on my noticeboard and I’ve passed the link on.
30 01 2008: K. Adam Christensen (12:56:26) :

Awesome work. Thanks!
30 01 2008: Mellow Morning » Design Patterns (13:31:49) :

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30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (13:49:38) :

Thanks Dan - I uploaded a corrected version. Concreate -> Conrete
30 01 2008: Cliff Hall (16:21:01) :

Beautiful work, Jason. Thank you.
30 01 2008: Fernando (16:23:27) :

Hi, is there a chance we can get this translated into Spanish? I would be willing to do it.
E-mail me if you are interested!

Regards
Fernando
30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (16:28:16) :

Sure and great idea. I emailed you info about translating it.

On that note, if there are other languages people want to volunteer to translate into, just post here and I’ll get in touch with you.
30 01 2008: Steve (18:14:40) :

Hi, great job with the patterns!! I have been looking for something like this for a while now, too.

I do have a question about the Command pattern, though. I think it has a slight error. It seems like the reference you have from Receiver to Command is not correct. The reference should be from ConcreteCommand to Receiver (in other words, the Receiver does not know about the Command, the Command knows about the Receiver).

Regards,
Steve
30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (18:51:09) :

Thanks for the heads up. I uploaded a fixed version.

Let me know if you guys see any more problems.
30 01 2008: a (20:37:09) :

The reason you’re getting so much bandwidth on the jpg is because you link to the huge image *within your post* instead of using a shrunk-down version. Every single person that visits gets the huge file - just rightclick ‘view image’.
30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (20:41:19) :

The images on the post are actually still hosted at wordpress.com - never moved them over when I moved my blog here. The bandwidth is not a problem - I have more than I could possibly use of that. The problem is CPU, which the support guys are looking into now. It appears that even when no activity is going on from my site there is still a significant CPU load. So until they can diagnose the problem I removed some of the “heavier” items to keep the disk access to a minimum.
30 01 2008: David (23:13:09) :

I think there’s an error in the Composite pattern. I’m pretty sure the concrete class (not the interface) you’ve called Component should be called Composite.

Still a very handy item. As soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted a printed copy on hand.
30 01 2008: Design Patterns Quick Reference (23:15:17) :

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30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (23:20:03) :

Right you are David - a fixed version is now uploaded. Thanks!
30 01 2008: Mahesh (23:28:42) :

Jason,

Great job!!

Is it possible for you to reinstate the link for the visio version? I would like to modify the version to highlight those patterns that are being extensively used in my project.

Regards,
Mahesh
30 01 2008: Jason McDonald (23:34:48) :

Mahesh - if I can get my cpu/bandwidth issues sorted out I will gladly make the file available again. I will hopefully hear something back tomorrow.
31 01 2008: Ali Ozan CIL (04:27:16) :

Great work!!
Thanks!
31 01 2008: Igor (07:28:21) :

Great job! Thanks.

I can translate this picture into Russian. You can contact me via e-mail.

Thank you.
31 01 2008: Quick Reference a los patrones de Diseño. « Weblog de Milagros Luchini (10:18:17) :

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31 01 2008: Joel (10:48:21) :

You should consider slapping these on Zazzle so they can be printed as posters. You’ll make a few bucks and people will get a nice piece of art for their office wall.
31 01 2008: asif (11:19:09) :

Nice work!!!!
A link ( client and interface ) is missing in the Proxy pattern.

asif
31 01 2008: » Referencia rápida de patrones de diseño (11:44:11) :

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31 01 2008: Jason McDonald (11:54:57) :

Joel - I will be releasing an announcement soon on the availability of something like this. I have everything set up and ready to go and am just giving it a bit to iron out all the errors.
31 01 2008: Design Patterns Cheat Sheet at building blocks (13:32:32) :

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31 01 2008: Jason McDonald (23:03:36) :

I just finished the poster version and uploaded it to CafePress - you can just pay for the poster printing/paper/labor/etc. and they will send you a production ready copy.

Go here to get the poster:
http://www.cafepress.com/codergear

We will have more stuff available soon - porting the graphics to the right size as we speak. Stay tuned to http://www.cafepress.com/codergear or my blog (mcdonaldland.info) for more info.
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1 02 2008: prashant (06:31:15) :

Hi,

Cool post and enjoyed downloading the pdf.

Thanks
Prashant Jalasutram
http://prashantjalasutram.blogspot.com/
1 02 2008: Fernando Costa » Blog Archive » Referência para Design Patterns (07:55:34) :

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2 02 2008: Yohan Liyanage (00:08:22) :

Thanks a lot for creating this. This is really useful to me and others who are out there having a tough time rolling over books to find the pattern details.
3 02 2008: Gaurav (21:44:37) :

Hi,

Thanks for the valuable resource.

Regards
Gaurav
4 02 2008: Manoj Prasad Gupta (02:08:35) :

Hi McDonald,
Great work. My request is to make it as a complete reference guide.
You can add code snippet (Java, C++ etc) for each and every pattern to make it complete.

Regds
-Manoj
4 02 2008: Jeff Mutonho (04:08:55) :

Hi McDonald

Great stuff! Any chance of reposting the Vision link?

Thanks

Jeff Mutonho
4 02 2008: Jeff Mutonho (05:16:19) :

I meant Visio in my last post
4 02 2008: Jason McDonald (08:27:57) :

Manoj Prasad Gupta - I am currently working on a project through DZone to produce one of these for their RefCardz products. This version will be free and will have some code samples (at least that is the plan at this point).

Jeff Mutonho - I may repost the visio link - I need to wait and see what is going on with the above mentioned RefCardz program first.

Thanks for all the interest!!
5 02 2008: Finds of the Week - February 3, 2007 » Chinh Do (00:08:50) :

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7 02 2008: Jagan Rao (10:24:05) :

Very useful content. thanks for sharing the good work. Its much appretiated.
8 02 2008: Pratik (02:40:54) :

Thank you - great work!
8 02 2008: Niksa Jakovljevic (04:12:01) :

Great reference. Something I was looking for long time ago in my student days
I think it would be nice to put known uses for each pattern

Thanks

Niksa Jakovljevic
9 02 2008: Static on WAQ177 » mcdonaldland » Design Patterns Quick Reference (13:36:55) :

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11 02 2008: YoungSu (01:51:38) :

Hi McDonald!
My name is Son YoungSu!
Do you remebmer me?

i am a korean programmer.

i want to translate your pattern rcard in korean version.

do you give me visio file?
if you have interesting this job, give me email please!

once again thank you! your efforts!
11 02 2008: pcollaog’s blog » Torpedo de Patrones de Diseño (13:22:42) :

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18 02 2008: Abhijeet Maharana (23:13:57) :

The comments say it all. And I will say it again … great!!!
I just pinned it over my desk
29 02 2008: The Geekette Speaketh (10:01:19) :

Design patterns in a snap…

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13 03 2008: Alan Brown (15:19:41) :

Excellent. Thanks!
18 03 2008: Anderscht? (18:02:41) :

Design Patterns Referenz…

Wer jemals etwas von Design Patterns gehöhrt hat, kennt das GoF Buch. Viel besser finde ich das Head First Design Patterns Buch welches gerade von mir gelesen wird. Eine schöne Übersicht zum Ausdrucken und an die Wand hängen gibt es…
2 04 2008: Sai (12:44:27) :

Just the right presentation I was looking for. Thanks a ton Jason!
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1 05 2008: Derick (03:16:10) :

Cool, well done, thanks for sharing!
14 05 2008: Arun (11:30:11) :

Thanks.. This is very useful