Today I thought I'd talk about a neat design pattern that doesn't seem to get much love: the Properties Pattern. In its fullest form it's also sometimes called the Prototype Pattern.

Did you check if this duplicates Prototype?

In this entry I can see it is a combination of prototypical instance creation + property collection.

Wow, that was a long read!

Good work and thanks for pointing out the article. I feel enlightened :)

Yeah, Steve prefers to call his posts essays because of their length, but if I had to name three blogs that made greatest influence on me as a developer, then the list is definite:

• Joel Spolsky
• Jeff Atwood
• Steve Yegge

Great list. I would add Martin Fowler and Uncle Bob.