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fowler

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fowler.

Editorial note

Martin Fowler has some interesting ideas and writes some interesting articles, but he's not architecture jesus laying down inviolable laws on mere mortals.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A hunter of wildfowl.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fowler gathered in one view.

noun

A hunter of wildfowl.

noun

A surname originating as an occupation for a hunter of birds.

noun

H. W. Fowler, British lexicographer and commentator on usage of the English language.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fowler.

noun

A hunter of wildfowl.

noun

A surname originating as an occupation for a hunter of birds.

noun

H. W. Fowler, British lexicographer and commentator on usage of the English language.

noun

A locality on the Stikine River, north-west British Columbia, Canada.

Example sentences

1

Martin Fowler has some interesting ideas and writes some interesting articles, but he's not architecture jesus laying down inviolable laws on mere mortals.

2

Nice article from Aviad Ezra, IMO much much better than what Fowler wrote.

3

And if you're having a tough time deploying changes, it sounds like you're not practicing continuous delivery, which as Fowler said is a prerequisite.

4

Why does Fowler always feel the need to invent his own terminology?

5

Notice how they are the same group as Martin Fowler followers.

6

People like Dave Thomas and Martin Fowler and Jim Weirich.

7

I admire Martin Fowler as well but he is so wrong here.

8

If Martin Fowler and his piecemeal refactoring posts is what it'll take for the OO people to move out of State then I should thank Mr.

9

I feel the same way about Martin Fowler videos.

10

Martin Fowler really struck a chord all the developers trying to do the right thing by cleaning up badly structured code, by giving the practice a name and explaining why it's important.

11

The metro looks to be British as well, though: the Metropolitan Railway, now part of London Underground, opened in 1863, and John Fowler was its chief engineer.

12

(Martin Fowler is capable of much better.) More importantly, the patterns themselves give an impression of coherence and well-understoodness to a space that is in fact incoherent and poorly understood.

Quote examples

1

Martin Fowler's refactoring book is not exciting, but it gets the message across that refactoring is not just "changing stuff to make it better" but a process.

2

One I can think of is "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler.

3

I have noticed that people that initially come into the industry as "object bigots" (Fowler's phrase to describe himself, not mine) end up discovering patterns inherent in functional programming or other paradigms and declaring them as novel ways to do stuff in the object world or otherwise.

Proper noun examples

1

You can read a lot on Martin Fowler's site about how to screw up the project.

2

Fowler's been discussing similar data and findings from their research [1].

3

I like the approach, and have more or less been applying it unknowingly since I read Martin Fowler's Agile book during Uni.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fowler in a sentence?

Martin Fowler has some interesting ideas and writes some interesting articles, but he's not architecture jesus laying down inviolable laws on mere mortals.

What does fowler mean?

A hunter of wildfowl.

What part of speech is fowler?

fowler is commonly used as noun.