[Nexialist]

The "12 Factor App" manifesto http://12factor.net/ is in the same vein as this, perhaps a bit more in-depth.

I like the idea of these guides generally. I think it'd be more valuable if they linked to example production code that followed the principles however, since there's no substitute for the real thing.

Come to think of it, I've never seen anybody write up any kind of index of (for example) Github projects that exemplify good design patterns for people to look at. Or some kind of recommended code reference list.

[pmichaud]

I like that idea too, but I suspect that there are pretty much zero non-trivial projects that actually follow best practices like these consistently. Maybe I'm wrong.