Re: Critique of Robert C. Martin's "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices"


JXStern wrote:
On 30 Dec 2006 23:55:10 -0800, "topmind" <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have put a draft critique of Robert C. Martin's "Agile Principles,
Patterns, and Practices" on my blog:

http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/martin1.htm

Comments welcome. At least nice ones are :-)

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Finally, I'd like to say that the design of GUIs seems a lost art.
One can come up with cannonical rules for GUI design, which would
generate better designs and implementations than 99% of the crap that
I see done today, mostly on the web but also in bespoke rich-clients.

The old event-driven model found in VB and Delphi, perhaps with some DB
awareness like Powerbuilder was pretty good at GUI's. If they
open-sourced the GUI engine, meta-tized it more, and added flexible
scaling screen concepts, it would be quite usable today. Hopefully Ajax
or the like will get back to that.


I haven't read (or seen) RCM's book, I'm sure it's amusing, and I hope
it has some better sections than this.

RCM definitely appears to not be a RDBMS fan and is happier the more he
wraps it away.


J.

Cheers, -t-

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