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2007 SugarLoaf PLoP
Conference Proceedings Online
The 2007 SugarLoaf PLoP Conference proceedings are
available via download from the SugarLoaf site. The Conference was held
in Brazil in August of this year.
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Announcing the New Patterns Journal
The Hillside Group is pleased to announce the launch of
the new
Springer-Verlag journal "Transactions on Pattern Languages of
Programming"
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Viking PLoP 2006
Report Online
VikingPLoP 2006 was a three day conference, held from September 28 to
October 1 (from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon) at Højstrupgård
Castle near Helsingør, 60 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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ChiliPLoP 2007
The tenth annual ChiliPLoP
features "hot topics" for experienced folks to gather and tackle
issues. Participants must choose one hot topic and register with the
workshop
organizer. How do you do this? Write an email
to one of the organizers requesting that you be included in their Hot
Topic
discussion. If you are
accepted, you will receive an email from your Hot Topic leader with the
registration link.
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Hillside Donations
The Hillside Board wanted a way to donate directly to the Hillside
Group. We are a non profit organization dedicated to improving the
quality of software development. The money we bring in helps pay for our
administrative costs, web site hosting, and conferences. If you would
like to contribute, please click the button on the front page of our
site.
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EuroPLoP 2007
The 12th annual EuroPLoP conference will be held at the
Irsee Monastery in Bavaria, Germany. The conference will be held
July 4-8, 2007.
The conference is open to both patterns writers and users alike.
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SugarLoafPLoP 2007
The 6th annual SugarLoaf PLoP conference will be held in Porto de
Galinhas, Brazil. The conference will be held May 27th - 30th.
The conference is open to both patterns writers and users alike.
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PLoP 2006
This year's PLoP conference will be held in conjunction with OOPSLA in
Portland, Oregon. The conference will be held October 21st-23rd, 2006.
The conference is open to both patterns writers and users alike.
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The PLoP D5 Book is now on
the Market!
The fifth volume in a series of books documenting patterns for
professional software developers, Pattern Languages of Program Design 5
covers current software development best practices distilled by the
patterns community. The material presented in the nineteen chapters of
this book distills first-rate patterns, which were workshopped at recent
PLoP conferences and rigorously reviewed and enhanced by leading experts
in attendance. Representing the best of the conferences, these patterns
provide effective, tested, and versatile software design solutions for
solving real-world problems in a variety of domains.
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The AITO
Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners For 2006
AITO is very proud to announce that the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2006
will be given to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and
(posthumously) to John Vlissides. The four are together known as “The
Gang Of Four” and they are being recognized for their contributions to
the state of the art embodied in their landmark book Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Sadly, since the
nomination of The Gang Of Four, John Vlissides passed away on November
24th, 2005 after a long illness. His home page John Vlissides has many
great stories about his life from his friends and colleagues.
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An open wiki has been
added for the purpose of reviewing books.
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We have Wikis available throughout the site: the
Hillside Wiki, the Member's Wiki,
and the
Hillside Book Discussion Wiki.
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The book directory now has books
separated by categories, but still has the alphabetical listing.
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You can now purchase books on our Book Reference listing. Every book
that is purchased supports the Hillside Group. See our
Book Reference Page.
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We are working on a new PLoP D5 Book.
The call for participation can be found
here.
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We are working with
Giving Space
(a non-profit group) to
see how patterns can assist their organization.
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11/20/03) |
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