Design Patterns and Refactoring

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44 points·kennandavison··15 comments

The "Antipatterns" section of the site is the verbatim text of "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis" [1], which is one of my all-time favorite books, but doesn't seem to credit the original at all. Is this site ripping them off?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arc...

Yes, it is. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22sourcemaking%22%20from%3Amar...

I flagged the article since it's blatant theft.

I'm surprised Fowler hasn't been able to get the website taken offline.

Nice!

Seems to be missing most of this list though: http://wiki.c2.com/?AntiPatternsCatalog

This is the place I go to when I need some greybeard wisdom. The SourceMaking website looks fancy, but barely contains even a fraction of that knowledge.

This is pretty cool!

I especially like the refactoring section, which provides some useful tips on how to refactor common software problems such as "the blob" (long methods, classes, etc.).

OT: Amazing website. What technology behind? No page reloads, no ajax to retrieve contents on click, no content hidden inside html, fully crawlable by googlebot e co.

It could all just be stored client side on initial page load.

https://sourcemaking.com/ajax/content/static.json

I wish they had hard copies.

There's always the classics:

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...

EDIT: And it appears the website is a direct rip-off of these books.

"Refactoring to Patterns"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85041.Refactoring_to_Pat...

So much so, and for so long, that I'd always assumed it was authorised. It seems not.

FWIW I already have both of those.

There are hard copies. This site is a direct rip-off of Martin Fowler's Refactoring book, among others.

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