mailto:markd@microen.com 

C++ developer. Technical Lead. University of Portland alum.  (BSEE '85). 

As I have moved from smaller deeply embedded systems into large-ish Windows NT application development I have become interested in the expertise encoded in well thought-out patterns. I am teaching my development team some of the GoF patterns that we actually used in our app over the last 5 years. (deliberately and inadvertantly, well and poorly. Never make your Facades Mediators.) 

I also found the Alexander material wonderful for understanding why 99% of the houses I looked at were insipid while house-hunting a couple of years ago. It gave me the tools for understanding with a high level of confidence why a gross cosmetic fixer would turn out to be a house I love. 

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