All,
We have formed an online book club where we are reading and reviewing "Object Thinking" by David West.

The club was started by Ken LeFebvre, the Developer Community Champion for the Greater Pennsylvania District, covering Pennsylvania, Delaware, and a small portion of New Jersey.

We have a web site http://www.GreaterPA-BookClub.com, a GotDotNet Workspace at http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=7c64d3dd-c367-46e8-a145-ae71aaf810ec and Ken's web site itself - http://www.greaterpa.net/Default.aspx?tabid=44.

The author of the book has been to all of our meeting, and it has been really interesting to see the effect the book has had on my thinking.

In Object Thinking, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmer--not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rely on analysis and conceptualization--on thinking--rather than formal processes and methods. Both provocative and pragmatic, this book gives form to what's primarily been an oral tradition among the field's revolutionary thinkers--and it illustrates specific object-behavior practices that you can adopt for true object design and superior results.

We meet on the first and third Friday of each month, at 1:00 pm (eastern). To log into the meeting, just go to "http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/meeet/greaterpa-bookclub/" target="top" >http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/meeet/greaterpa-bookclub/. In addition to the online meeting room, you'll want to call into the simultaneous conference call, at +1 (866) 500-6738 and use the participant code 931863.

In between meetings, please join the ongoing discussions at the club's forum: "http://www.greaterpa-bookclub.com/" target="top" >http://www.greaterpa-bookclub.com/.



Drop By and Join us,

Doug