Wiki Pages About What Are Patterns

A RoadMap of WikiWikiWeb pages that touch the questions:

• What are patterns?
• What are pattern elements and features?
• What entities are like patterns but aren't patterns?
• What are types and variations of patterns?
• What are types of pattern collections?

(http://c2.com/ppr/wiki/WikiPagesAboutWhatArePatterns/html.zip - fast download of these pages.)

Pattern introduction

• PatternsForBeginners - An introduction
• SomePatternsQuestionsAnswered - Pattern questions and answers
  • http://hillside.net/patterns/about/ - About patterns
  • http://hillside.net/Wiki/ - Hillside Net Wiki

What are patterns (and their elements and features)?

• PatternDefinition - A discussion
• PatternDefinitionThread/MorePatternDefinionThread - A discussion
  • http://hillside.net/patterns/definition.html - A discussion

PatternsMisconceptions - Myths and misconceptions about what patterns are and are not

PrinciplesAreNotPatterns - Patterns aren't the general principles themselves - they are the results of applying them

PatternEnvy - Possible reasons why some are too quick to use the "pattern" word when describing something

PatternityTest - Various criteria a pattern should meet before calling it "a pattern"

PatternValueSystem - Things pattern-writers should be concerned about

TipsForWritingPatternLanguages - A pattern formula of WardCunningham's

WhereDoPatternsComeFrom - Patterns are distillations of best practice

SuccessesAndPatterns - Extract commonness from success stories

WhyPatternsAreDifferent - Patterns chronicle solutions generated over time

ProvenPractice - Patterns have been UsedThreeTimes

DiscussionPatternCousins - Patterns capture experience

HaveThisPattern - Patterns are not original

PatternsDocumentTheObvious - Patterns document the obvious and the familiar

ForcesVsConsequences - Patterns have tension

WhenToUsePatternForm - Patterns balance multiple forces

PatternsDontNeedToGoBoom - Patterns are about catharsis

UsefulUsableUsed - Patterns are usable, and used

PatternLanguage - Alexander defines context, system of forces, solution

• http://www.PatternLanguage.com/ - Alexander's web page

PatternLanguagesArePatternsToo - PatternLanguages are patterns

PatternsAreNotTheLesserOfTwoEvils - Patterns relate context, forces, and solution

WhyPatternsAreInteresting - Texture of pattern problems is interesting

PatternInEverything - Pattern names help standardize out vocabulary

PurposeOfPatterns - Patterns give their users a common structure and vocabulary

Entities that are like patterns but aren't patterns

• AdviceVsPatterns
• KoansMetaphorsAndParables
• GamesVsPatterns
• PatternsVsDescriptions
• FormalMethodsAndPatterns
• LittleRulesAndPatterns
• ProcessAsPattern
• IdeaForm

Pattern types and variations

• AntiPatterns - Look like good ideas, backfire when applied
• ProtoPattern | PersonalPattern | SpeculationInPatternFormat | SuccessStory - Not yet UsedThreeTimes
• PatLet - Two sentence pattern
• ElementaryPatterns - Simple patterns used for teaching
• ProgrammingIdioms/ProgrammingIdiom - Language specific mini-patterns
• GammaPattern/DesignPatterns - Software patterns
• ProcessPatterns/OrganizationalPatterns - Social patterns
• GenerativePattern - Works indirectly, rather than attacking the problem directly
• ProcessPatternLanguageTaxonomy - Sorts patterns into structural, process, and behavioral

Patterns grouped by form

• PatternForms
  • PortlandForm
  • AlexandrianForm
  • CanonicalForm
  • CoplienForm
  • GoForm
  • CockburnPmForm

Patterns grouped by software development phase

• ProjectManagementPatterns
• ArchitecturalPatterns
  • PatternsGenerateArchitectures
• AnalysisPatterns
• DesignPatterns
• ProgrammingIdioms
• DocumentingFrameworksWithPatterns
• PerformanceTuningPatterns

PatternLanguage - More than the sum of its parts

• PatternLanguageTaxonomy
• KindsOfPatternLanguages
  • PatternsHandbookLanguage - Unordered collection of patterns
  • PrescriptivePatternLanguage - Ordered sequence of patterns
• PatternCatalog - Just the sum of its parts
• PatternSystem - Patterns grouped according to appropriate criteria

Other useful pages

• KindsOfPatterns
• HistoryOfPatterns
• BestPatternThreads
• QualityWithoutaName
• CategorizingPatterns
• PatternRelatedBookList
• PatternThink
• ReallyGoodPatternBooks
• RefactoringPatternSpace

Pattern examples - pages that point to lots of patterns

• PatternIndex
• TopicalPatternLanguageWebSites
• WebsitePatterns

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