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Books
Articles
- Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
by Doug Lea (1993) - Provides a detailed overview of the Pattern Language approach to Object-Oriented programming. Gives overview of process and form of writing patterns.
- The Structure of Pattern Languages by Nikos A. Salingaros (2000) - a general discussion on pattern languages
(Cached version) - Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study - Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. Designers and managers have discussed “standards” as a way to solve this problem but this standards content (often contained only in the memories of designers) has never existed in a commonly accessible format.
Websites
- Patterns Home Page, "Your Patterns Library" - resource collection to pattern books, conferences, pattern writing, mailing lists, tools, and so on.
- XML Design Patterns - Develop effective DTDs and XML Schema documents for your XML using structural design patterns.
Other pattern languages
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Software design patterns book by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides (1995)
- Patterns of Software (the whole book) pdf by Richard P Gabriel