[Sigia-l] Re: Book recommendations

[Bob Doyle]

Hi Bill,

We recently did a study of Design Patterns as a possible formal 
framework to report on best practices in content management.

We built a template that contains the how and why of design patterns 
themselves as a good practice.

Look at http://www.cmprofessionals.org/Resources/Practices/template.html.

Bill Bell wrote:

>eddy at eddykim.com wrote, in part:
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>>A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
>>An interesting proposal for how to think about the things we build and
>>what makes them successful. Originally written for an Architecture
>>audience but can be applicable to almost anything.
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>I was interested to see this book mentioned on this list because the concept of patterns has 
>spawned a very large literature in the software developer community, to the extent that it 
>would be difficult to read many software "recipes" without some knowledge of the common 
>patterns.
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>Which makes me wonder: is there a good place to look for IA patterns?
>
>Bill
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