Agile Development is one of the big buzzwords of the software development industry. But what exactly is it? Agile Development is a different way of managing software development projects. The key principles, and how Agile Development fundamentally differs from a more traditional Waterfall approach to software development, are as follows:
"Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice
In the Java community there's been a rush of lightweight containers that help to assemble components from different projects into a cohesive application. Underlying these containers is a common pattern to how they perform the wiring, a concept they refer
We're writing about computer programs in a new stylistic form called pattern languages. The form has many internal references which map well to hypertext links. We've added links to published (or soon to be published) documents. Short summaries appear in
D. Persico, F. Pozzi, and L. Sarti. Computers in Human Behavior, 25 (5):
1020 - 1027(2009)Including the Special Issue: Design Patterns for Augmenting E-Learning Experiences.
T. Schummer, S. Lukosch, and R. Slagter. Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, 11th International Workshop, CRIWG 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciecne 3706, page 73-88. Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2005)