Really Valuable Pages List
Contains what some users of this Wiki have designated to be valuable contributions. When one has cruised through a few of these pages an idea should begin to emerge of what this community is all about, how pages are constructed, what passes for content, and something of the manner of presentation that allows a page to survive and grow.
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PeopleProjectsAndPatterns
People
- People Categories
- Strategies
- Personal Involvement
Projects
Patterns
- AdviceVsPatterns - A short discussion on the correct usage of DesignPatterns, ProcessPatterns, and advice, and when are the right times for each
- AntiPattern - Looks like a good idea, backfires when applied
- DesignPatterns - Defines design patterns and discusses two ways people come to know them: in using the DesignPatternBook?, or in learning to command a pattern language.
- DiscussionPatternCousins - Patterns capture experience
- ElementaryPatterns - Simple patterns used for teaching
- ForcesVsConsequences - Patterns have tension
- GamesVsPatterns - If work is a game, patterns tell us what moves to make when. Compelling observations follow.
- GammaPattern/DesignPatterns - Software patterns
- GenerativePattern - Works indirectly, rather than attacking the problem directly
- HaveThisPattern - Patterns are not original
- KoansMetaphorsAndParables - What in the world _are_ we doing?
- PatLet - Two sentence pattern
- PatternCatalog - Just the sum of its parts
- PatternDefinition - A discussion
- PatternDefinitionThread/MorePatternDefinitionThread? - A discussion
- PatternEnvy - Possible reasons why some are too quick to use the "pattern" word when describing something
- PatternForms - A list of presentation standards for patterns.
- PatternIndex - lots of patterns
- PatternInEverything - Pattern names help standardize our vocabulary
- PatternityTest - Various criteria a pattern should meet before calling it a "patterns"
- PatternLanguage - More than the sum of its parts
- PatternLanguages - Alexander defines context, system of forces, solution
- PatternLanguagesArePatternsToo - PatternLanguages are patterns
- PatternLanguageTaxonomy - A discussion concerned to answer whether or not it's possible and how to organize the pattern kingdom
- PatternsAreNotTheLesserOfTwoEvils - Patterns relate context, forces, and solution
- PatternsDocumentTheObvious - Patterns document the obvious and the familiar
- PatternsDontNeedToGoBoom - Patterns are about catharsis
- PatternsForBeginners - An introduction
- PatternsHandbookLanguage - Unordered collection of patterns
- PatternsMisconceptions - Myths and misconceptions about what patterns are and are not
- PatternSystem - Patterns grouped according to appropriate criteria
- PatternValueSystem - Things pattern-writers should be concerned about
- PrescriptivePatternLanguage - Ordered sequence of patterns
- PrinciplesAreNotPatterns - Patterns aren't the general principles themselves - they are the results of applying them
- ProcessPatternLanguageTaxonomy - Sorts patterns into structural, process, and behavioral
- ProcessPatterns - Patterns that are manifest in social organizations. This page has lots of links, a good starting point for research in the subject.
- ProcessPatterns/OrganizationalPatterns - Social patterns
- ProgrammingIdiom - Language specific mini-patterns
- ProvenPractice - Patterns have been UsedThreeTimes
- PurposeOfPatterns - Patterns give their users a common structure and vocabulary
- SomePatternsQuestionsAnswered - Pattern questions and answers
- SuccessesAndPatterns - Extract commonness from success stories
- TipsForWritingPatternLanguages - A pattern formula of WardCunningham's
- UsefulUsableUsed - Patterns are usable, and used
- WhenToUsePatternForm - Patterns balance multiple forces
- WhereDoPatternsComeFrom - Patterns are distillations of best practice
- WhyPatternsAreDifferent - Patterns chronicle solutions generated over time
- WhyPatternsAreInteresting - Texture of pattern problems is interesting
- WikiPagesAboutWhatArePatterns (Roadmap) - Comprehensive List of Patterns Pages
Informal History of Programming
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