Comments on: On What Starups Can Learn from Jill's Amazing Gaspacho http://www.scottporad.com/2009/08/11/on-what-starups-can-learn-from-jills-amazing-gaspacho/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: scottporad http://www.scottporad.com/2009/08/11/on-what-starups-can-learn-from-jills-amazing-gaspacho/comment-page-1/#comment-750 scottporad Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:57:59 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=822#comment-750 Go for it! Go for it!

]]> By: Donnette Panama http://www.scottporad.com/2009/08/11/on-what-starups-can-learn-from-jills-amazing-gaspacho/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Donnette Panama Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:59:59 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=822#comment-749 I trust you would not have reservations if I placed a part of this on my univeristy blog? I trust you would not have reservations if I placed a part of this on my univeristy blog?

]]> By: Martin Cron http://www.scottporad.com/2009/08/11/on-what-starups-can-learn-from-jills-amazing-gaspacho/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Martin Cron Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:03:47 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=822#comment-205 I don't want to come across as pedantic, but you've hit a pet peeve of mine. There is a distinction between patterns and recipes that I find useful, especially when people have a vague understanding of design patterns and dismiss them as pointless copy/paste templates. While recipes are all about the implementation details, design patterns aren't. They are about using a shared language to discuss the intention behind a particular design. You can implement a decorator pattern in a bunch of different ways (e.g. through self-encapsulation or by interating over a set of algorithms) but the motivation behind why you would want to slice up, encapsulate, and optionally apply bits of logic is the same. Design patterns don't keep you from re-inventing the wheel, they keep you from having to re-invent the ideas and words for circular devices that spin around an axis. Wheel construction is still DIY. The design pattern for gazpacho would speak to the motivation, something more like "I've got all these tomatoes, but it's August and I want to make/serve something cold" I don’t want to come across as pedantic, but you’ve hit a pet peeve of mine. There is a distinction between patterns and recipes that I find useful, especially when people have a vague understanding of design patterns and dismiss them as pointless copy/paste templates.

While recipes are all about the implementation details, design patterns aren’t. They are about using a shared language to discuss the intention behind a particular design. You can implement a decorator pattern in a bunch of different ways (e.g. through self-encapsulation or by interating over a set of algorithms) but the motivation behind why you would want to slice up, encapsulate, and optionally apply bits of logic is the same.

Design patterns don’t keep you from re-inventing the wheel, they keep you from having to re-invent the ideas and words for circular devices that spin around an axis. Wheel construction is still DIY.

The design pattern for gazpacho would speak to the motivation, something more like “I’ve got all these tomatoes, but it’s August and I want to make/serve something cold”

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