joeyh reviewed Open Advice by Markus Krötzsch
Review of 'Open Advice' on 'Goodreads'
The quality of the essasys is of course uneven. Surprisingly wide range of contributors too.
The standout is Federico Quintero's "Software that Has the Quality Without A Name". While the gang of 4's Design Patterns book drew from A Pattern Language, producing massive, heavy, and in my experience, often useless patterns, Quintero is inspired by a later book by the same author, The Nature of Order, but to better (and more succinct!) effect, providing ways to look at code, not boilerplate structures. I like his patterns such as "Thick Boundaries", "Levels of Scale", and "Strong Centers" a lot more than Singletons, Observers, and Abstract Factories.
