Adrian's Blog

Twenty years ago this month, I wrote a column for Object Magazine - System Design: Lessons from Architecture - that detailed my interest in and experience with the use of patterns as building blocks for architecture and software. At that point, I had built a house using Christopher Alexander's books as my guides. I had also taught many software engineering classes focused on a modular approach to development with reusable components that leveraged best practices as captured in patterns. In the mid-1990s more articles and books appeared in the software engineering domain supporting a pattern-based approach to development, which eventually became the de facto standard for advanced object-oriented development.