This a large book, and your class will probably cover only a portion of its material. We
have tried, however, to make this a book that will be useful to you now as a course textbook
and also later in your career as a mathematical desk reference or an engineering HAndbook
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology--from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET--the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable HAndbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform
If you re like me, you re excited by what people do with template metaprogramming (TMP) but are frustrated at the lack of clear guidance and powerful tools. Well, this is the book we ve been waiting for. With help from the excellent Boost Metaprogramming Library, David and Aleksey take TMP from the laboratory to the workplace with readable prose and practical examples, showing that "compile-time STL" is as able as its runtime counterpart. Serving as a tutorial as well as a HAndbook for experts, this is the book on C++ template metaprogramming."Chuck Allison, Editor, The C++ Source
