During the last decade software patterns emerged as one of the most successful forms of reuse. The Gang of Four 23 Design Patterns , the POSA Architecture Patterns , Fowler's Enterprise Application Patterns , or the xUnit Test Patterns (to name just a...

********************************************************************* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 15th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP 2008) October 18-20, 2008 - co-located with OOPSLA 2008 Nashville, Tennessee, USA http://hillside.net/plop...

One of the things that surprised me at OOPSLA 2007 was the amount of traction that social media is getting. The crowd attending the 2007 WikiSym was larger than other co-located events that I remember from past OOPSLAs. Consequently I decided (with encouragement...

TechFest 2008 takes place this week in Redmond. The Seattle PI has a piece about it , and it's great to see Blews (BLogs + nEWS), one of the projects I'm increasingly involved with, mentioned in the article. If this piques your interest read Michael Gamon...