On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Aaron McCaleb wrote: > Actually, Best Practices are certainly related but Best Practices != > Design Patterns. > > A best practice is a guideline drawn from combined experiences. > > A best practice might be something like, "Avoid unencrypted > transmission of authentication credentials." > > A design pattern is a generalized (abstracted), reusable solution for > a commonly occurring problem. "Single Sign-On" might be one of many > access or identity authentication patterns. It may incorporate the > best practice of "Avoid unencrypted transmission of authentication > credentials." But the best practice is not, by itself, a reusable > solution for a commonly occurring problem.
another way of stating your "design pattern" would be "best practices for creating a Single Sign-On infrastructure" David Lang > I suppose it might be argued that design patterns are an alternative > or supplementary expression of best practices, but they still are > distinctly different in the way they are applied. > > (Looking at Wikipedia, there is a higher order of patterns, called > "Architectural Patterns", that might be a better fit for describing > patterns in system administration. Must research further, in my > copious free time.) > > --Aaron > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:17, Jesse Trucks <jtru...@lopsa.org> wrote: >> 2) A more commonly used term/paradigm is Best Practices, which I think >> LOPSA is and should be in the business of collecting, editing, and >> publishing. >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
