A book on parsing

Seems quite complete…

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html

Refactoring Thesis

Here is a fun thesis on the programmatic automation of refactoring.

http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~droberts/thesis.pdf

Patterns – A list of forces

This page http://g.oswego.edu/dl/pd-FAQ/pd-FAQ.html contains a list of programming forces that patterns resolve.

It might act as a useful checklist… or might be far too handwaving in nature.