Michael Dillon

I first became interested in patterns in 1982 shortly after I was married because my wife and I wanted to eventually build our own house and I had purchased several architecture books including one entitled A PatternLanguage by ChristopherAlexander. I enjoyed this book so much that I also bought the TimelessWayOfBuilding.

Both books have influenced my thinking about the software I was designing which at the time were complete systems of business applications written in COBOL or Business Basic. Nowadays I am more interested in working with dynamic object-oriented languages such as Python and Java although I'm trying to learn Smalltalk and plan to someday delve into Objective-C.

I have been involved with computers since 1972 doing all manner of things, mostly related to programming or design. I also write a weekly column for Internet Week magazine about Internet infrastructure and a monthly column for Boardwatch about building an ISP service. See my web page at http://www.memra.com for links to my articles.

And although I have experienced many conferencing/discussion systems over the years, both on the web and off, this Wiki has to be one of the most enjoyable I have come across to date.

One of these days I plan to incorporate the Wiki ideas into an Internet-based collaborative work system that I am designing and prototyping in my spare time.

I don't visit here as often as I used (there are other wikis out there to play in now :-) but I still try to keep up with goings on every so often.

Some pages I have created or edited: TeamWave GamesVsPatterns LawOfDemeter PythonLanguage JavaByteCode ArchitectureAndObjectDatabases ScrumProcess CommonSense

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