Transaction patterns - a new vocabulary

June 9, 2006

Just as ‘design patterns’ have given architects and developers a common way to describe certain types of software problems, Tony Marston is now challenging the community to begin thinking in transaction patterns. The title of his paper is somewhat overstated (as he later admits in his conclusion) but the premise is certainly on target. I wonder if this thinking/meme has a different name and is already being used in the design community. Perhaps there’s something over at boxesandarrows.com, which sort of feels like that natural place for this sort of thing (maybe i’m just way offbase in that thinking though!)

Silly me - what I was thinking about was the Yahoo! Design Pattern area. This developer area from Yahoo! seems to offer some/much of the same concepts that Tony was getting at. Tony may be straddling more of a middle ground between the front end and the back end code, so these are probably all different spots along the spectrum of ‘design’, but I thought it was worth it to point out the Yahoo! stuff (again). They’ve revamped their site and have a lot more info there than they did 3 months ago - it just keeps getting better