Category Pattern

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To quote ChristopherAlexander, "Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."

Alexander was writing primarily about architecture, construction, and urban/regional planning -- how people organize their environment. His ideas about patterns have been applied to software development by WardCunningham and others.

Patterns are one of the main reasons for wiki wiki.

See CategoryAntiPattern for commonly used patterns of behavior that often produce undesirable results.

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Patterns using the DesignPatternsBook categorization scheme:

CategoryCreationalPatterns CategoryStructuralPatterns CategoryBehavioralPatterns CategoryConcurrencyPatterns CategoryRealTimePatterns CategoryUserInterfacePatterns? (UserInterface) LifeCyclePatterns Social CategorySelfImprovementPatterns

Other

For another way to organize patterns, see CategorizingPatterns.
See also http://c2.com/ppr/titles.html, http://www.hillside.net/patterns/, http://home.earthlink.net/~huston2/dp/patterns.html

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