San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group meeting tonight

Posted by Ali Mills Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:09:00 GMT

The San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group is meeting at 6:00PM tonight at Frog Design. Frog is located at 420 Bryant St. in San Francisco. Tonight’s pattern is the Strategy Pattern.

Luke and I started the group a couple years ago to motivate us to work through Addison-Wesley’s original Design Patterns book, but we’re not leading the group right now. Ben Honda Rottler is. Essentially, Ben has activated the group from its dormant state. I believe that Ben – like us – is working through the book in the order and fashion suggested by Joshua Kerievsky’s A Learning Guide To Design Patterns which is good because the order worked really well for us.

If you’re interested in design patterns and live in San Francisco, you should consider attending the group.

If you’re interested but live in Boston, you should consider attending the Boston Flash Platform User Group. Since April they’ve been hosting a design patterns sub-group.

Besides the groups in San Franciso and Boston, I don’t know of any other design patterns study groups that focus on ActionScript. I know that when Paul Spitzer (Flair and SWFObject Publish Profile Extension author) lived in Santa Cruz, he started a group. But, since Paul lives in San Francisco now (and was a core attendee to the San Francisco Design Patterns Study group when Luke and I were working through the book for the first two times), that group’s now gone.

If you know of other design pattern study groups, please post the group’s information in the comments section.

Thanks!