Are you still passing out invites? If so can you shoot me one at: mleitz1 at at at gmail dot com?

I'm afraid to try this out. It might just work.

Either this is an obvious troll or you miss the point of software engineering. The point of design patterns isn't "over engineering" or class reuse. It's about communication and maintenance. Here's a scenario. I'm quitting tomorrow and you have to take over this solution I wrote.

Let's say it's some sort of system that allows users to write some custom rules for some business case. Sound complex?

Here's what I tell you:
I wrote the UI using MVC which pipes into the Builder pattern to create a rules file. The rules file goes through the parser pattern and if that passes it puts it into the database as a valid rule.

There I've just described 2000 hours of development work in 2 sentences.

Try doing that without using known design patterns.

Wrong! Joel Spolsky had a different take: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Right and let's be honest: "No one's gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since 'nam." -Superbad

Oh man.

I don't know if any of these are valid counter arguments, but #9 had to be written by someone trolling this wiki.

9. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.

How can you write that with a straight face? I mean come on.

There's actually a pinball museum in Las Vegas. It's worth a trip if you're ever in Sin City.

http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

Sounds like they immortalized your experiences in this Kool-Aid Man video game. Coincidentally also for the 2600. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasBarHXf1U

There aren't enough mod points in the universe to mod down all the trolls that are going to be posting on this topic.

Let's put this into perspective. Even the author of the software is calling for a reality check that's missing from the summary.

From his site:

I was going to mod you up, but instead I figured I would post a somewhat supporting reply.

I've been doing Java development for quite some time. Although I think being assailed by a retard with a baseball bat is worse than working with Java front end technologies, the discussion of which technology to use always brings groans from the development team.

What do you use? Web front ends with JSF or JSP? Do you use something like IceFaces or Trinidad which are implementations of JSF? Do you use Swing/SWT and shoot for some sort of RCP programming model with Java Web Start? Do you pick Adobe's Flex on the front end, Java on the server and go with the baggage of flash?

The one thing I wish Sun would have done with Java is put together a more cohesive and easier to develop front end. I can only assume MS runs circles around Java in this space.

This major weakness of the Java stack means I get trolled all the time by those MS guys! Curse you Sun and now Oracle!!

Combining your comment with Schmidt's I wonder if we'll end up with a society where everyone has a common name. If everyone is named John Smith, it would be hard to track you back to the correct facebook page or whatever.