Links to pattern sites
In the begining there was Christopher Alexander...
- Pattern Language.com - http://www.patternlanguage.com/
- The Order of Nature - http://www.natureoforder.com/
- and this books, A Timeless way of Building (1979), A Pattern Language (1977) and more recently The Order of Nature.
General
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Jim Coplien & Niel Harrison's Organizational Patterns
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Jim Coplien's Software Patterns Management Briefing - a short book from 1996 now available online, a good introduction to the subject.
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Joe Bergin's homepage - contains some intorductory material and Pedagogical Patterns information.
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Kevlin Henney's home page - includes his patterns
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Linda Rising's home page and The Pattern Almanac is now online thanks to Charles Weir
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Fearless - and other patterns for introducing new ideas into organisations - draft of a forethcoming book from Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising.
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What is a pattern? - a interesting little paper from Sally Fincher at the University of Kent at Canterbury
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Charles Weir and James Noble's Patterns for Small Memory Systems
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Ward Cunningham's new Pattern Share site
Patterns everywhere....
I'm interested in expanding the use of patterns. I'm interested to see where we can use patterns outside of architecture and software engineering. I am very interested to know of new applications for patterns. In the meantime here are a few some links to some other people using patterns.
- AG Communication Systems have applied classical software patterns to the non-software world.