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Author: Joshua Kerievsky
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- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August 15, 2004)
- Language: English
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- ISBN-13: 978-0321213358
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Kerievsky has done it. He has started to pull together anti-patterns (a.k.a. "bad smells"), refactorings, and patterns into one unified study. All three work well individually. Together, they make a powerful combination.
This isn't as rigorously analytic as the original Design Patterns book. I fully expect more theory-oriented writers to follow the trail blazed here. Instead, Kerievsky gives worked examples, in great detail. At every point, he starts with a code sample drawn from real life, complex enough to be interesting. Then, step by step, he shows the incremental changes made to transition from it's problematic start to its pattern-based end point. Experienced programmers may find this plodding and repetitive. Beginners, however, often have a hard time planning incremental changes and executing them. The author takes care to keep the code in working order at each increment, showing a clear path through the forest of possibilities. Some readers may even trace the path backwards, giving another look at how each change moves toward the end state. The worked examples are the real strength of this text.
This is a book for the software maintainer. In other words, it addresses 90% or 99% of the work that real programmers do. Just about every other software text on the market assumes that the project just started - the disks are empty and the compiler shrink-wrap is on the floor. I admit, that kind of programming is the most fun. It's just not realistic, though. Most work is rework, the kind demonstrated here.
Another great feature of this book is what it lacks: dogmatic harangues about methodology. It even keeps a skeptical attitude towards patterns, since heavyweight design techniques aren't always right for lightweight problems.
This book goes much further than Martin Fowler's seminal work on refactoring. Indeed, it goes further than the GoF's canonical work on patterns. By combining the two, Kerievsky breaks new ground.
The refactorings are accessible and beautifully presented. As with the GoF book, a lot of the rationale will ring a bell. "Gee, I've seen this before..." The value of these refactorings lie precisely in that corner, where the mechanics of refactoring with a GoF pattern as the goal allow one to improve the readability and maintainability of the code.
Some of the refactorings were less than obvious to me until I read this book. And that's where Kerievsky's mastery shows. He presents fresh ideas (to me, anyway) with solid examples, and thoroughly thought-out steps.
The examples deserve special mention. How many times have you read a "manual" or other technical how-to with toy examples that fail to illustrate the point? Or with examples so narrow that they hardly approach your real-world situation. (I could name names... ;->) OTOH, how many examples are so long and laborious, that gleaning any useful information requires learning the author's example-problem domain before you can get anywhere?
Kerievsky walks the tightrope between toy examples and over-engineered examples with tremendous skill. They're Goldilocks examples: Neither too big, nor too small, his examples are juuust right.
Another area in which some tightrope walking is required is presenting material that's suitable for a tutorial, vs. material that makes for easy access as a reference. Josh somehow manages to balance the two. Reading from begining to end, one is able to appreciate the tutorial nature of the material.
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