David Cymbala

The material I have put here is a 'work in progress' that could use some reactions from folks interested in patterns and so on. I must admit that I am new to writing patterns, but I'm giving it the old college try.

I have a background in biology, even though I program and design software professionally in the financial sector over the past decade or so. If you are interested in complexity theory as applied to genetics that crosses over to software systems, check out:

http://www.cloud9.net/~dcymbala/research.html

My regular home page is:

http://www.cloud9.net/~dcymbala/

I am building up a pattern language that has a biological kind of feel to it. Here are the patterns in it:

Complexity Surfing: (?? hmmm...better name?)

• BeeHive
• ModelYourEnvironment
• ModelYourSelf
• AlternateHardAndSoftLayers
• DecideOnThePrimitives
• CreateFlexibleMessaging
• CriticalResourceFlow
• IsolateAndIntegrate
• {Something about building your own constraints}

Additional Pages that just play out ideas:

• CreativeStupidity
• LongTermGreedyAlgorithm
• CriticalNumberOfWorkers

Other ideas that need to be filled out:

• ModelStrategiesOfOpponents?
• SendScoutsIntoTheUnknown?

Related Pages:

• TrainHardFightEasy (not mine, but it fits in...'internal' fighting?)
• TrainHardPlayEasy (a little blurb I wrote...the page was already there)

Beginnings of something interesting....:

• PatternPattern
• MetaPattern
• { Related Meta-Pattern topics }

(Does MetaPattern apply? Also, afaik, Pattern Language Pattern remains yet to be written. --Falk Bruegmann)

The subtlety of what each pattern language communicates is still emerging as new pattern languages are being written. Are we even ready to start writing a Pattern Language Pattern? Perhaps someone just has to be bold enough to start with something that pattern language authors can react to. --David

Unix Shell Patterns:

• UnixShellPatterns (some nice ideas for script writers from JimCoplien, et al. Soon to be added to on another page.)
• IncrementalUnixShellDevelopment (I'll be filling this out soon)

More to come soon...

Email me at mailto:dcymbala@earthlink.net

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