[currywurst]

I have no idea which side of the bed HN woke up today, but the comments here disparaging Martin Fowler's body of work really trouble me.

I really enjoy Martin's (and more recently his collaborators') blog posts on various trends. More often than not, they distill key concerns and references into a quickly readable summary. His books on software patterns collect a breadth of problem/solution pairs that have now been baked into so many frameworks that you probably don't even realise you are benefiting from them.

If you are totally new to Martin Fowler's books and writing, I would urge you to not brush them aside because of some snide comments on HN. There's a wealth of material that can surely enrich your thinking.