I think you want books on design patterns.<br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=design+patterns&amp;x=0&amp;y=0">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=design+patterns&amp;x=0&amp;y=0</a><br>
<br>Design patterns are just what you&#39;re looking for -- proven best practices for designing architectures.<br><br>Kyle<br><br clear="all">Research Assistant<br>eBusiness Center @ BYU<br><a href="http://kyle.mathews2000.com/blog">kyle.mathews2000.com/blog</a><br>

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I am asking this because I was working on a FOSS project for many months and<br>
few bad initial design decisions and I had to spend a lot of time rewriting<br>
a lot things, and basically the project has come to a dead halt because it<br>
just not possible to fix those things now !<br>
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I dont want to repeat the same mistakes again &nbsp;:) I want to be more careful<br>
this time.<br>
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I just to know what the provable things and the best approaches for such<br>
projects - reinventing the wheel and repeating the same stupid mistakes is<br>
just not fun :)<br>
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How is your post related to _Drupal development_? &nbsp;You&#39;re asking about project management and a google for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+%22project+management" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+%22project+management</a> will give you correct results.<br>

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