Links to things and people that have inspired us.
- Dreamsongs.net. Richard P. Gabriel's personal site with many essays about programming
patterns, and poetry. People: Richard Gabriel, Christopher Alexander.
- "Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code"
- "Incommensurability". On the difficulties of communicating across scientific paradigms.
- Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. People: Robert M. Pirsig.
- Center for Humane Technology. Formerly(?) Time Well Spent. People: Tristan Harris.
- Patterns Dev. Summaries of the 253 patterns from A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander et al. People: Theo Armour, Christopher Alexander.
- The Power In Agile. Exposé of the exclusivity of current agile and XP practices. People: Sarah Mei.
- Livable Code. People: Sarah Mei.
- Project Oberon. People: Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht.
- Out of the Tar Pit. A response to Fred Brooks' "No Silver Bullet" that explores the causes of accidental complexity and potential cures. People: Ben Moseley and Peter Marks.
- ZenIT. People: Amil Khanzada.
- Fast Test, Slow Test. People: Gary Bernhardt.
- Boundaries. People: Gary Bernhardt.
- Patterns Failed. Why? Should We Care? People: Brian Marick.
- Therapeutic Refactoring. People: Katrina Owen.
- Lecture to the London Mathematical Society, February 20 1947. People: Alan Turing.
- Programming Across Paradigms. People: Anjana Vakil.
- Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste. People: Jim Coplien.
- Rediscovering MVC. A brief history of the evolution of Model-View-Controller, claiming that MVC is in fact a pattern language.
- Humane Interfaces: Questions of Method and Practice in Cognitive Technology. People: Jonathon P. Marsh, Barbara Gorayska, Jacob L. Mey, David Good, Ian Hart, Alex Kass, Joe Herman, Colin T. Schmidt, Patrick Ruch, Muneo Kitajima, Douglas Hermann, Carol Yoder, Virgil Sheets, Justine Wells, Brad Brubaker, John Sillince, Wolfgang Halang.
- What Nobody Tells You About Documentation. Describes the four-part approach to writing comprehensible docs. People: Daniele Procida.
- Re: Patterns, QWAN, and Extreme Programming. Describes some of the history of patterns in software. People: Ralph Johnson.
- Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers. People: Doug Lea.
- The Emperor's Old Clothes. People: C.A.R. Hoare.
- Thoughts on Craftsmanship and Deep Feeling: Matisse and Alexander. People: Mike van Eerden, Christopher Alexander, Henri Matisse.
- Collaboration in Open-Plan Offices. People: Gemma Irving.
- Do You Have a Good Outcome-Oriented Roadmap? People: Aloka Penmetcha.
- C.S. Lewis and the Anscombe Debate. People: P.H. Brazier, C.S. Lewis, G.E.M. Anscombe.
- Programming as Theory Building. People: Peter Naur.