http://blog.markwshead.com/95/dangers-of-design-patterns/ Mark's thoughts on being Mark Shead and other random subjects Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.markwshead.com/95/dangers-of-design-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Kumar Chetan Sharma Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:43:31 +0000 http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/07/23/dangers-of-design-patterns.html#comment-9 I have only found few of the patterns useful in my career of web application development. But usually these patterns introduce complexity and extra bytes of codes which matter a lot when I write and application. I wrote a custom CMS for less than 200KB of code. The client is happy. They can scale it, enhance it and do whatever they wish to do. The template or "view" is totally separate from model and/or controllers and it takes same amount of simplicity to create a view for this CMS as it will take for any other. But this CMS is not based on MVC. The only pattern if I did use was singleton which IMHO I could have simply avoided. My point is Design Patterns are not silver bullets. I have only found few of the patterns useful in my career of web application development. But usually these patterns introduce complexity and extra bytes of codes which matter a lot when I write and application. I wrote a custom CMS for less than 200KB of code. The client is happy. They can scale it, enhance it and do whatever they wish to do. The template or “view” is totally separate from model and/or controllers and it takes same amount of simplicity to create a view for this CMS as it will take for any other. But this CMS is not based on MVC. The only pattern if I did use was singleton which IMHO I could have simply avoided. My point is Design Patterns are not silver bullets.

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