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Design Patterns Conversation

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 [...]

Belated April 1st post

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 [...]

WebPatterns discussion at the Web Standards Group

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 [...]

webpatterns interview

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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