Martin Fowler

OK, I must admit, I've never read a single Martin Fowler book. Lately with people talking about him like he is a god and quoting his book like it's the bible I figured I better start looking into who he is and deciding if I should be reading his books. A simple check of martinfowler.com worked like a charm. I also discovered that he has a blog, so you guys better get your aggregators open and subscribe! :-)

After reading through some of his website and checking out the reviews of his books on Amazon, I have went ahead and purchased Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture and Refactoring. These books are extremely well reviewed on Amazon. I will have to let you know my own review once I get them and start reading.

Published Saturday, June 21, 2003 11:55 AM by ejsmith

Comments

# re: Martin Fowler

Saturday, June 21, 2003 2:12 PM by Douglas Reilly
Refactoring is a brilliant bit of work. Certainly, you may go through it and say, "Well, I could have thought of that." And it may be true. The issue is, Fowler has gone through the work ot categorizing and working out the rationale's for the various types of refactorings. An amazing book.

# re: Martin Fowler

Saturday, June 21, 2003 2:21 PM by Frans Bouma
He really knows totally nothing about abstract database modelling. His article about evolutionairy database design (http://martinfowler.com/articles/evodb.html) is so incredibly bad, from a scientific POV, it hurts. In the old days, people called that 'ad-hoc hacking of short-sighted spagetti', now it seems to be 'science'. Anyone who designs serious software, thus uses abstract models of the databases the application works with, knows that ad-hoc changing tables in a database is the same as changing assembler lines generated by a C++ compiler.

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