Bill Scott on Design Patterns
November 29th, 2006
If your design team has been considering using patterns or wondering how they might be useful in your projects, check out this article with Bill Scott of Yahoo in .NET magazine:
We’re lucky to have Bill speaking at our upcoming Web App Summit this January in Monterey, CA. He knows a tremendous amount about both creating and disseminating patterns, and his full-day tutorial with David Malouf contains an in-depth discussion about them.
Here’s a snippet from the article about how patterns play a dual role for teams:
“Patterns really act both as a design vocabulary and as a way to capture emergent best practices within the context of a specific design problem. With the recent advent of AJAX and the resurgence of Flash within the page, there are a number of new (and old) idioms that are now appearing on the web. As these idioms emerge, it’s handy to have a common terminology across Yahoo! for referring to them.”
