Inspiration

One of the factors behind this belief of mine into Patterns-and-processes is Martin Fowler (http://www.martinfowler.com). Have been reading his stuff since last 3-4 years. Writes great stuff on technology. Even non-tech stuff (related to processes, offshore development etc.) is pretty interesting; more than anything, it appears to be pure-common-sense-documented!!
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One such inspirational author is Joel (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/). I consider both Martin Fowler and Joel in the same genre.