Starting Points

WelcomeVisitors makes a good starting point for first time visitors. It explains what is going on here in both form and content. It just doesn't lead anywhere too interesting.

TipsForBeginners would be a good second place to visit if more ex-beginners took their mentoring responsibilities seriously.

RecentChanges is where power-webbers feel the wiki-pulse. Did you ever wish that the most recent change was at the top? Then you're not doing your share of the PagePruning.

RecentVisitors is the who's new of wikiville. Now we need a who's who that works a little better.

RoadMaps are guides to browsing that have been written by interested parties on a variety of subjects such as refactoring, extreme programming and java.

WikiHotSpots is a list of pages that have seen a lot of revision at one time or another. You be the judge. Are these pages hot?

FrontPage was suppose to be analogous with the front page of a newspaper. But this isn't a newspaper. The official starting point has become a backwater.

FindPage is linked to every page. Is it up to this distinction? It would be better if the various indices it cites were more useful.

MoreAboutMechanics leads to wiki's engine room. This can't be a starting point. The name alone implies that if you start here you have already missed the beginning.

BookList points to printed works related to these pages. Some books have reviews that lead into corresponding wiki topics. AmazonAssociate is a jumping-off point for ordering relevant and hard-to-find books.

PatternsGroups points to a list of pattern reading groups that have been established at various places around the world.

PeopleIndex, ProjectIndex and PatternIndex are creeping toward usefulness. This is, you may recall, the PeopleProjectsAndPatterns database.

StartingPoints is itself a reasonable, though somewhat wordy, starting point.

SearchWords are words worth searching for. Each offers its own unique cross section of these pages.

Try your own keyword search ...