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Writing Patterns

Writing Patterns and Pattern Languages

How do you get ideas for patterns? The folks at AG use pattern mining to get ideas for patterns, which they then improve using a writers' workshop.

Useful sources for writing patterns which can appear on the web.

Writing Patterns

Doug Lea's contributed checklist to help write great patterns.
A Pattern Language for Pattern Writing by Gerard Meszaros and Jim Doble.

Templates

Save the following pages as source from your WWW browser and fill in the blanks.

Doug Lea's html template .
The Gang of Four's Template .
AG's HTML template.

HTML Resources

The simplest, best intro to writing HTML is ftp'able from here .
There is an html-mode for emacs available.
If you like semi-wysiwyg editors, try out hotmetal .
Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will soon have a Microsoft Word Viewer which will save and read html.
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