Successfully delivering Solutions via Patterns
In Patterns-Based Engineering, two leading experts bring together true best practices for developing and deploying successful software-intensive systems. Drawing on their extensive enterprise development experience, the authors clearly show how to deliver on the promise of a patterns-based approach—and consistently create higher-quality solutions faster, with fewer resources.

William Hofferth is a woodworker who was named one of the top 200 craftsmen in the country by Early American Life magazine. His designs have appeared in Better Homes & Gardens. He lives in Cromwell, Connecticut

From a blueprint to the finished bowl, Curt Theobald, professional segmented woodturner, covers the step-by-step procedure of creating a segmented turning.
Curt’s helpful tips and insights take the mystery out of the process of segmented bowl construction. This tutorial is a good reference for turners of all skill levels.

Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You ll also get links to additional technical resources that can help with your application development.

The Southwestern section of this fun pattern book includes a gecko welcome peg rack, adobe bookends, cactus shelf, coyote switch plate cover, and more.

“Kent is a master at creating code that communicates well, is easy to understand, and is a pleasure to read. Every chapter of this book contains excellent explanations and insights into the smaller but important decisions we continuously have to make when creating quality code and classes.”
–Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer

Prices in any freely traded market are determined by psychology. One- and two-bar price patterns represent classic examples of how these emotional characteristics are reflected in the charts.

What's the best approach for developing an application with javascript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous javascript coding patterns and best practices. If you're an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are ideal -- whether you're writing a client-side, server-side, or desktop application with javascript.
Written by javascript expert Stoyan Stefanov -- Senior Yahoo! Technical and architect of YSlow 2.0, the web page performance optimization tool -- javascript