Well, after an extended hiatus, webpatterns is back.
The last year or so, I’ve been working hard on a related area, microformats, and from time to time, speaking on patterns, all the while thinking, sketching out my ideas, reading.
The impetus for restarting the project with some earnest comes form a couple of quarters. In particular, a [...]
A few months ago, Yahoo! announced their Design Patterns Library, and made their work freely available. It’s something I’ve meant to note here for some time, so I am belatedly doing that now.
Luke Wroblewski, Principal Designer at Yahoo! at his fantastic personal site, “Functioning Form” has been hosting an in depth conversation about design patterns [...]
Quick note to say I’m speaking at the Melbourne Web Standards Group on webpatterns on Thursday (May 4), and Canberra Web Standards Group on May 11. Free for both, just follow the links for more details and see you there.
john
It does seem quiet about here right now, but rest assured, there is quite a bit happening behind the scenes. I have three presentations on webpatterns coming up in Sydney (at OpenPublish) Melbourne on May 4th (Web Standards Group) and Canberra (Web Standards Group on May 11th) in the next couple of months, and spoke [...]
Recently, the excellent web standards group mailing list had a discussion on reusable HTML chunks, which also included a little discussion of webpatterns. I posted a shortish comparison of how patterns compare with reusable code snippets, which I’ll repost here, as I think the issue is important.
Probably the biggest problem with web patterns is the [...]
John Lampard interviewed me recently for his new publication onvoiceover. John really got to the heart of webpatterns with his questions, and I think it might be the best effort I’ve made so far to describe the possible benefits of patterns for web development. Go and take a look.
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Given patternQuiz kicked off in the weeks before [insert appropriate festive season here], (smart move John) and just after it was announced typepad had their major outage (you can imagine the panic), pulling the Quiz for a couple of days, and then I moved it to its new home webpatterns.org, I was really pleased [...]
We’ve just started the first PatternQuiz. Starting from the top, in this installment we take on Site Patterns. There’s a detailed example of the “blog” pattern, but most importantly, get along and submit your own site patterns. In time, we’ll formalize these at the soon to be up and running WebPattern wiki.
A few weeks back, before my life got just a little more hectic, I published the article WebPatterns and WebSemantics. In it I mentioned webpatterns.org, which I have set up to promote the development of a pattern language for web development, and promised the PatternQuiz, modeled (with his blessing) on Dan Cedeholm’s SimpleQuiz.
So, now its [...]