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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People
People Categories
Category Home Page - Access to Pages created by participants, containing bios, interests, vocation, etc.
Strategies
Purpose Driven Life - Book - Helping one to focus on "It's not all about you"
Personal Involvement
Regular Contributors - People active in the wiki in the past
Projects
Patterns
Advice Vs Patterns - A short discussion on the correct usage of Design Patterns, Process Patterns, and advice, and when are the right times for each
Anti Pattern - Looks like a good idea, backfires when applied
Design Patterns - Defines design patterns and discusses two ways people come to know them: in using the Design Pattern Book, or in learning to command a pattern language.
Discussion Pattern Cousins - Patterns capture experience
Elementary Patterns - Simple patterns used for teaching
Forces Vs Consequences - Patterns have tension
Games Vs Patterns - If work is a game, patterns tell us what moves to make when. Compelling observations follow.
Gamma Pattern/Design Patterns - Software patterns
Generative Pattern - Works indirectly, rather than attacking the problem directly
Have This Pattern - Patterns are not original
Koans Metaphors And Parables - What in the world _are_ we doing?
Pat Let - Two sentence pattern
Pattern Catalog - Just the sum of its parts
Pattern Definition - A discussion
Pattern Definition Thread/More Pattern Definition Thread? - A discussion
Pattern Envy - Possible reasons why some are too quick to use the "pattern" word when describing something
Pattern Forms - A list of presentation standards for patterns.
Pattern Index - lots of patterns
Pattern In Everything - Pattern names help standardize our vocabulary
Patternity Test - Various criteria a pattern should meet before calling it a "patterns"
Pattern Language - More than the sum of its parts
Pattern Languages - Alexander defines context, system of forces, solution
Pattern Languages Are Patterns Too - Pattern Languages are patterns
Pattern Language Taxonomy - A discussion concerned to answer whether or not it's possible and how to organize the pattern kingdom
Patterns Are Not The Lesser Of Two Evils - Patterns relate context, forces, and solution
Patterns Document The Obvious - Patterns document the obvious and the familiar
Patterns Dont Need To Go Boom - Patterns are about catharsis
Patterns For Beginners - An introduction
Patterns Handbook Language - Unordered collection of patterns
Patterns Misconceptions - Myths and misconceptions about what patterns are and are not
Pattern System - Patterns grouped according to appropriate criteria
Pattern Value System - Things pattern-writers should be concerned about
Prescriptive Pattern Language - Ordered sequence of patterns
Principles Are Not Patterns - Patterns aren't the general principles themselves - they are the results of applying them
Process Pattern Language Taxonomy - Sorts patterns into structural, process, and behavioral
Process Patterns - Patterns that are manifest in social organizations. This page has lots of links, a good starting point for research in the subject.
Process Patterns/Organizational Patterns - Social patterns
Programming Idiom - Language specific mini-patterns
Proven Practice - Patterns have been Used Three Times
Purpose Of Patterns - Patterns give their users a common structure and vocabulary
Some Patterns Questions Answered - Pattern questions and answers
Successes And Patterns - Extract commonness from success stories
Tips For Writing Pattern Languages - A pattern formula of Ward Cunningham's
Useful Usable Used - Patterns are usable, and used
When To Use Pattern Form - Patterns balance multiple forces
Where Do Patterns Come From - Patterns are distillations of best practice
Why Patterns Are Different - Patterns chronicle solutions generated over time
Why Patterns Are Interesting - Texture of pattern problems is interesting
Wiki Pages About What Are Patterns (Roadmap) - Comprehensive List of Patterns Pages
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Informal History of Programming
Informal History Of Programming Ideas - Short History
Programming Paradigm - Programming Languages, Methods and Approaches
Authors List as favorites:
Behavioral Effect Of Metrics - Suggestions for those in the Tracker Role
Change Your Organization Tactics -- Organization change, please refer to diary pages listed inside as well
Optimization Stories -- Xp advocates post some results of their practice
Ten Word Line -- Compose text into lines averaging ten words or less, for casual reading, and even narrower for speed reading.
Kinesthetic Program Design -- Having programmers throw balls to each other, so everyone understands message-passing.
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