Links, References and Resources

Here’s some links that I often refer to (or just want for reference):

OO (+ Architectural) Principles and Patterns

• Solid(object-oriented design)
  • Single Responsibility Principle
  • Open / Closed_Principle
  • Interface Segregation Principle
  • Dependency Inversion Principle also see Inversion of Control
• Common Closure Principle
• Common Reuse Principle
• Loose Coupling
• Facade
• Stable Dependencies Principle
• Stable Abstractions Principle

And the bonus links:

• The architects omnibus of links: http://www.bredemeyer.com/links.htm
• Wikipedia Definition of Software Architecture

Architecture Methods and Frameworks

• The Architecture Journal (MSDN): Evaluating Application Architecture, Quantitatively
• Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University)
• ATAM
• ARID (I particularly like the use of pseudo-code to test the architecture)
• Architecture Documentation, Views and Beyond Approach
• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF and Zachman
• 4+1
• 5-Layer Architecture

Data Architecture

• Data Warehouse
• Data Mart
• OLTP and OLAP
• Fact and Dimension (and Slowly Changing Dimension)
• Star Schema and Snowflake Schema
• Normalization and Denormalization

The “Illities” (Non-Functional Stuff)

• Non-Functional Requirement
• List of System Quality Attributes
• The Short Dictionary of Non-Functional Requirements (PDF)
• My Architecural Cheat-Sheet

Architecture & Programming Books

• Martin Fowler: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (and here)
• Robert C Martin & Micah Martin: Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
• Luke Hohman: Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
• Frederick Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month
• Steve McConnell: Code Complete, (Official Site)

UX / Usability

• Interaction Design Patterns
• Fitts’s Law
• Base-Line of Usability NFRs

Security

• OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)
• CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration project)
• SABSA (Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture framework)

.Net Reference

• Attributes
• Reflection

Blogs

• Wired: Danger Room
• Seth Godin
• WebMonkey

Laws

• Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
• Niven’s Laws, specifically law 1 from Known Space.
• Clarke’s three laws, specifically law 3: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Misc

• List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IOC)
• Enterprise Libraries: Patterns & Practices, CodePlex
• List and Definitions of UML Connectors
• My Public SkyDrive
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
• Roger Sessions / SIP / Complex Architectures: White Papers
• http://morphfolia.codeplex.com/
• http://robomojo.codeplex.com/

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