Patterns? There is more to design that GoF design patterns!

[Cyrille Martraire]

You've heard of patterns before; forget what you know about them.
Patterns are not design patterns, in fact design patterns are only a
few subset of every pattern available in the literature, and many new
patterns are written every month. You probably also have your own
patterns in your mind, without knowing.

Don't bother about the definitions of patterns (there are many of
them); For us the word pattern will be a shortcut for whatever common
situations you can recognize, labelled with a unique name.

Pattern = Common Situation + Unique Name

The rule of thumb: if you can recognize a precise situation (a role
played by a class, a collaboration between classes, or just a style
for writing methods), then you can probably turn it into a pattern
into Patternity. This means you'll be able to express your intent
explicitly, and tools will be able to manipulate that pattern to do
good things for you.