He talks a lot of sense, but we don't see eye to eye on everything.

I like his book on patterns and domain driven design - we use concepts he talks about quite a lot - particularly specification patterns and builder patterns (which I love because they make such neat concise easy-to-read code)

But, I was reading a piece of his recently about jQuery - he dislikes jQuery's identically named getters and setters (his example is x = object.Height() to get the height and object.Height(200) to set it).

He says it ought to be object.Height() and object.SetHeight(x). I don't agree. Well, I do, I see the sense in his argument, I just don't think it matters in the slightest.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on August 5th 2011 at 15:00:10

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Get the fuck in. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 5, 14:43:57
- Are you a Martin Fowler fan? (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 5, 14:55:21
  - He talks a lot of sense, but we don't see eye to eye on everything. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 5, 15:00:10
    - I'm with him on that. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 5, 15:03:17
      - It's here. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 5, 15:11:26
        
        I find him like all these self-annointed gurus and share the bileblog's opinion (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 5, 15:13:00
        
        Actually I agree quite a lot. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 5, 15:24:07
        
        He's done well for himself since Pauline sold off that market stall (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 5, 15:31:16
        
        Pauline's dead and Martin moved away with Sonia Trumpet Face (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge 5mal1, Aug 5, 15:36:01
        
        whoa there (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 5, 15:32:17
    - he did all that after he left Eastenders? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 5, 15:03:03
  - He loves a good refactor. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 5, 14:58:39
- Until you run it, and it just coughs and starts laughing. I'm all geeked up too cos (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 5, 14:49:47
  - I love it - no problems at all during the 30 day trial a couple of months ago. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 5, 14:52:24
    - Haven't really used VS since the second .NET edition. Much prefer to use C# than (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 5, 14:57:39
      - Don't Novell do a .Net on iphone dev tool? (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 5, 14:59:22
        
        Mono. Yeah a mate of mine bought it - $399. Then was rather surprised when he (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 5, 15:12:32

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