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McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentation?

Posted by: Joseph Ottinger on January 30, 2008 DIGG
Someone pointed out a Design Patterns Card from McDonald's, the fast food restaurant, which is actually rather useful as a poster. Finally, something from McDonald's which might be good for you! (Note added after posting: this had nothing to do with McDonald's after all; it's from a blogger. It's just fun to poke at fast food restaurants.)

(Given McDonald's culinary history, one might expect that they'd recommend the use of VB4, coded with the WingDings font, transferring "secure" information via base64, encoded with rot13 twice - for extra security, with technical leads whose job requirements include coding on crack.)

Postscript: This showed up on Dzone, as "Design Patterns Quick Reference," created and posted by JavaLobby user finn0013. Way to go, finn0013, and TSS sincerely hopes you're not on crack in any way.

Message was edited by: joeo@enigmastation.com

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·  McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentation? by Joseph Ottinger on Wed Jan 30 09:44:05 EST 2008
  ·  Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio by James Watson on Wed Jan 30 09:59:00 EST 2008
    ·  Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio by Joseph Ottinger on Wed Jan 30 10:01:05 EST 2008
      ·  Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio by Justin Lee on Wed Jan 30 10:01:56 EST 2008
        ·  Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio by Joseph Ottinger on Wed Jan 30 10:02:46 EST 2008
          ·  Perhaps you should also change.... by Brian Cortez on Wed Jan 30 10:19:14 EST 2008
      ·  Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio by Persistability Ltd on Wed Jan 30 12:24:26 EST 2008
  ·  I am, in fact, not on crack... by Jason McDonald on Wed Jan 30 17:07:24 EST 2008
  ·  rot 13 twice? by Titi Wangsa on Mon Feb 04 23:12:36 EST 2008
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Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio

Posted by: James Watson on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246422
Uh, on it it says:


Copyright © 2007 Jason S. McDonald
http://www.McDonaldLand.info


The guy's name is McDonald, I don't think that means he works for McDonald's.

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Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio

Posted by: Joseph Ottinger on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246424
Uh, on it it says:


Copyright © 2007 Jason S. McDonald
http://www.McDonaldLand.info


The guy's name is McDonald, I don't think that means he works for McDonald's.
You're right! Sorry, I figured "McDonaldland" was a registered entity of the fast food company, and missed that - whoops.

Okay, folks, I think it's safe to say that Jason McDonald is not on crack in any way, and has no direct affiliation with McDonald's.

I need to fire my fact-checker.

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Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio

Posted by: Justin Lee on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246427
You're right! Sorry, I figured "McDonaldland" was a registered entity of the fast food company, and missed that - whoops.

Okay, folks, I think it's safe to say that Jason McDonald is not on crack in any way, and has no direct affiliation with McDonald's.

I need to fire my fact-checker.


Or actually hire one... ;)

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Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio

Posted by: Joseph Ottinger on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246428
You're right! Sorry, I figured "McDonaldland" was a registered entity of the fast food company, and missed that - whoops.

Okay, folks, I think it's safe to say that Jason McDonald is not on crack in any way, and has no direct affiliation with McDonald's.

I need to fire my fact-checker.
Or actually hire one... ;)
Shh!

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Perhaps you should also change....

Posted by: Brian Cortez on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246429
....your opening copy. It still references the McDonald's restaurant (unless he also has a restaurant business too)

:)

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Re: McDonald's: "interesting" food but good pattern documentatio

Posted by: Persistability Ltd on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246427
I need to fire my fact-checker.

Did you mean to say fat-checker ?

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I am, in fact, not on crack...

Posted by: Jason McDonald on January 30, 2008 in response to Message #246422
I am not on crack. :)

I went to St. Lucia for my honeymoon and everyone treated us like royalty (until they got a normal tip) because they made the same mistake you did - they all thought we were somehow affiliated with the McDonald's franchises...

- Jason McDonald

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rot 13 twice?

Posted by: Titi Wangsa on February 04, 2008 in response to Message #246422
rot 13 twice on a text would return the original text?
rot13(rot13("plain text")) == "plain text"

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