Comments on: Design Patterns Refcard Released Today

By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #117

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #117 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:18 +0000

[...] Design Patterns Refcard Released Today – Jason McDonald point to a new reference card on Design Patterns hosted over at DZone. You will need to be a member of the site to get a copy of this (or any of the other references on subjects such as jQuery, PowerShell, etc) but it looks like it might be worth while joining up [...]

By: Jason McDonald

Jason McDonald — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:31:54 +0000

The reason to keep both is that the quick reference is just that – it simply gives the pattern diagram, name, and a one-liner of what it does. It is meant to be just a memory aid – you’d have to understand the patterns fairly well for it to be of much use. The RefCard has a lot more information, most importantly, a usage sample that I tried to take from a real world implementation. While this is still partially meant to be a memory jogger it also has enough information in it that people could theoretically learn new patterns from it too.

By: kirlich

kirlich — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:55:13 +0000

And there is a reason to keep both, as their names say:

Design Patterns Quick Reference
Design Patterns Refcard – (more detailed with examples)

Anyway great job!

By: Rick Ross

Rick Ross — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:28:11 +0000

Congratulations, Jason! You have outdone yourself (literally) and I bet this will be one of the most popular DZone Refcardz ever. Thanks for your hard work. A lot of people will learn from it.

Rick

By: Bubba

Bubba — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:41:27 +0000

Way to go, Jason!

The cards look great.