I bought “Patterns of Enterprise Architecture” while shopping at Borders today. I’ve been meaning to purchase the Martin Fowler book for a while, but never quite managed to add it to my Amazon.com shopping cart. Just flipping through the pages, I realised just how much this book has influenced the design or patterns I had only just discovered 2-3 years ago. This includes popular ORM patterns such as ActiveRecord and DataMapper. ActiveRecord, powers Rails & DataMapper which integrates nicely with Merb. While it is true that Ruby really brought these patterns to life, Martin includes comprehensive examples in both Java and C#. I hope to explore the additional ORM patterns …