Thijs van Dien wrote to us in early 2015 with some great questions about Presenter First’s place in application architecture in the post-MVC era. His well-researched questions were a joy to respond to; while there’ve been many advances in desktop and mobile programming patterns since we first wrote about PF back in 2007, we still find value in the core aspects of Presenter First. I’ve captured our email conversation here for broader sharing and posterity. Read more on Is Presenter First Still Valuable to Modern App Architecture?…
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Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012
About two years ago, I created a sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C. I recently went ahead and updated the project to work with the latest and greatest versions of the tools it is built upon. Find it here!
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Presenter First in Backbone.js
Presenter First is a pattern often used at Atomic. It allows you to drive your development from the business logic down. We recently tried this approach on our project in Backbone.js using CoffeeScript.
Presenter First in GTK and C
This post has been updated for 2012. Read the latest version.
Recently Mike Karlesky and I spent a week in the Baltimore area leading up a workshop-style training course. The intent of the workshop was to demonstrate Agile techniques applied in the embedded domain.
Presenter First: Data Binding and Adapters
Back in November I got an email from Jiho Han asking a question about Presenter First:
“In Presenter First, is databinding still feasible? I’m speaking about situations where you might have a 3rd party grid control where it is almost unusable without databinding.”
Happily, we have a new sample illustrating the Adapter extension to Presenter First. The application is a simple book inventory manager with a sophisticated editable table widget (JTable and TableModel data bindings) and MVP-triplet-to-triplet coordination between the editor components.
- Read the Java source code
- Run the executable JAR file
The Exceptional Presenter
PresentationObject is an implementation of Jay Fields’ Presenter pattern in Rails. It has familiar declarative style syntax and offers encapsulating presentation logic in a testable object.
Without a presenter-like object it’s easy to spread presentation logic and information across the MVC architecture: models end up with unneeded methods, controllers make unneeded decisions and view templates become corroded by unneeded code. Combined it becomes difficult to test and maintain presentation logic in the application.