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RtP in the Wild
Wednesday, September 1, 2004

RtP is already proving its worth on our current project. I brought the book along with me this week to leave in plain view of my teammates and to see what happened. It was picked up by a number of people and we identified two refactorings (Inline Singleton and Replace Conditional Dispatcher with Command) that we were currently executing. These two refactorings were second nature to our senior developers and having these refactorings in the RtP catalog facilitates the learning of these refactorings for the rest of us.

That is what a pattern book should aspire to be: Distilling the common knowledge of expert practitioners.

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