OO Programming Newsletter #38 from Bruce Eckel April 2002

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* Policy-Based Design and Patterns with Scott Meyers 
* Prague Seminars 
* Speaking in Poland, TIJ in Polish 
* Thinking in Java in Italian 
* More Funny Satire Banner Ads

See the Calendar for the current schedule: http://www.mindview.net/Calendar

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* Policy-Based Design and Patterns with Scott Meyers

July 18-19 in Crested Butte, Colorado

Policy-Based Design (PBD) is a language-neutral design technique derived and 
generalized from Andrei Alexandrescu's work on Policy-Based Class Design in C++. 
PBD may or may not be a design pattern, which is a subject we'll also tackle 
during the workshop. PBD is an approach to the object-oriented analysis and 
design of software systems that emphasizes breaking solutions down into 
orthogonal policies that can be easily mixed and matched to build systems with 
widely varying characteristics.

I will be teaching this workshop with Scott Meyers, author of the seminal works 
"Effective C++," "More Effective C++" and "Effective STL." However, you may use 
the object-oriented language of your choice as an implementation language.

The goal of this exercise-based workshop is to give you a set of tools to help 
you design and implement systems using PBD. The learning will come primarily 
from hands-on design projects. Each project will begin with an introduction and 
discussion led by Scott and I. Next, attendees will break up into small groups 
to work on the given design project with Scott and I circulating among the teams 
and offering ideas and insights. Lastly, we will debrief each project with the 
teams reporting their results for discussion.

Enrollment is limited to 30 people. You can find out more at: 
http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/PolicyPattern/

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* Prague Seminars

Bill Venners and I will be giving the "Objects and Patterns" seminar 
May 13-17 in the beautiful city of 
Prague. See: http://www.amaio.com/seminars/

We discount the seminars when we give them in Prague, and lodging and food is 
reasonable, so taking a seminar in the US vs. taking one is Prague is roughly 
equal in expense. See: http://www.amaio.com/seminars/prgcost.html

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* Speaking in Poland, TIJ in Polish

As part of the launch of the Polish edition of "Thinking in Java, 2nd Edition," 
after the Prague seminar I will be traveling to Warsaw and on Monday, May 20, 
giving a 2-hour presentation titled "Patterns, XP and other ways to increase 
your productivity."

I will put a link to further information about this event on the calendar when 
it is available. http://www.mindview.net/Calendar

The presentation that Richard Hale Shaw and I gave at the recent Software 
Development Conference comparing C# and Java seemed successful (we got laughs 
from the audience, which is usually how I measure such things). In the process, 
I spent about 6 hours with Richard, intensively going through the C# and .NET 
platforms, and thus got a reasonably intensive lesson in the system.

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