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I first heard of Martin Fowler several years ago at Whilfest in Milwaukee when I attended a session on Refactoring. The session material was based on Martin Fowler's book of the same name. This past summer, I finally got around to reading a book that been on my list for at least two years, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler. Holy crap! Why did I wait so long. This book has lots of great information about creating large enterprise systems. However, many of the topics are applicable to smaller applications. There are chapters on web presentation, session state, distribution, domain logic, data source architecture, three just on object-relational mapping and behavior, and lots, lots more. This book should be required reading for anyone developing anything more than small, simple systems. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.