THIS NorthTexasPatternsGroup IS NOT ACTIVELY meeting.
- If you are interested in helping make this group active again, I encourage you to join and post to the mailing list


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This is the local patterns group in North Texas (the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex).

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FYI: The patterns home page: http://hillside.net/patterns
	*(you can navigate from here to subscribe to the online discussion groups)

	*The North Texas Patterns group regularly holds two study groups:

	*One group just completed a pass through the book "Design Patterns"

	*by Gamma, Johnson, Vlissides and Helm (a.k.a. the Gang of Four);

	*One group studying distributed computing.

We typically meet on the second Tuesday and first Wednesday of each month.

	*Monthly Meetings (typical) -> with current topic
'''The Tuesday group is on hiatus and isn't actively meeting''' 
	* '''Second Tuesday - Design pattern study group'''
		* *TBD* In hiatus
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	* '''First Wednesday - Architectural Design and Patterns study group'''	  
	 *TBD* In hiatus
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-Dave-

P.S. 

A good introduction to some object-oriented concepts and terms may be found in the publications section of Object Mentor's web site that contains many very good papers by Robert Martin:
  http://www.objectmentor.com

There were some questions about patterns and frameworks.
There are a number of papers available on the "hillside" site at:
  http://www.hillside.net/patterns/papers/
There is a lot of good stuff there but, for starters, you may find these
worthwhile:
	* Jim Coplien:
		* "Software Design Patterns: Common Questions and Answers"

	* Ralph Johnson:
		* "Documenting Frameworks Using Patterns"

	* Kent Beck, Ralph Johnson:
		* "Patterns Generate Architectures"
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