Design Patterns

Some I can think of off the top of my head:

• Subscriber
• Builder
• Singleton
• Adapter
• Factory
• Facade

Patterns can be broken down into five types, four of which were described in gang of four. The fifth has been added later but its contents predate many of the other patterns. They are

1. Creational Patterns
2. Structural Patterns
3. Behavioural Patterns
4. Concurrency Patterns
5. Architectural Patterns

Creational Patterns

So this includes Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Lazy Initialisation, Multiton Pattern, Object Pool, Prototype and Singleton

Structural Patterns

Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Front Controller, Flyweight, Proxy and Module

Behavioural Patterns

Blackboard, Chain of Responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Momento, Null Object, Observer, Servant, Specification, State, Strategy, Template method and Visitor

Concurrency Patterns

Active Object, Balking, Message Design, Double-checked Locking, Event-based asynchronous, Guarded Suspension, Lock, Monitor Object, Reactor, Read-Write Lock, Scheduler, Thread Pool and Thread-Specific Storage

Architectural Patterns

SOA, MVC, N-Tier, Event Driven, Peer-to-Peer et al

As each pattern could be its own post, i won't attempt to describe them here but will work through the list as individual posts