So I’m in the office WAY too early.  It’s 5:30 AM as I write this while waiting for a database shrink to complete, but I got into the office at 4 AM.  As I drove in this morning, I thought about the JOLT Awards given out by Software Development magazine this year.  One of their categories is Best General Books – I decided to go ahead and get the category winner, Head First Design Patterns from O’Reilly Press.  I’ve been interested in design patterns for a while now, both as a means for learning more about application architecture and as a means of communicating about applications with other developers [Michael Earls wrote a post about this, but I’m apparently not typing the right keywords into the search engines – I can’t find it].  This book is supposed to be an excellent introduction to patterns, with implementations of each pattern and good and a bad manner.  All of the comments on Amazon.com are glowing and the book beat out my other choice (which will be my next purchase anyway) for the JOLT Award.  Not that I care about the JOLT Awards, but that means at least one person looked at both books and judged this one a better learning tool.

— Matt Ranlett

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[note] – it was Wednesday when I wrote this, I just for got to put it online.