Episode 3: MiniPLoP at OOPSLA

Guests: Linda Rising, Joe Yoder, and Bob Hanmer

Host: Daniel Steinberg

When the seminal book Design Patterns made its public debut at ooPSLA 1994, the world of software developers changed forever. Soon everyone wanted to learn patterns and, even better, write patterns -- to document their knowledge of what software to build, and how.

That same year, a new sort of conference debuted as well, Pattern Languages of Programs, and in 2007, PLoP continues to provide an opportunity for pattern writers to improve their work and form communities with other software developers.

The patterns community has always had a close relationship with ooPSLA, culminating in the co-location of PLoP 2006 with ooPSLA in Portland. This year PLoP returns to Allerton Park, but ooPSLA again offers folks a touch of PLoP in the form of two workshops, a Pattern Writing Bootcamp and a Writers Workshops for Papers in Software Development.

Listen to this podcast to hear Daniel Steinberg of DimSumThinking chat with workshop organizers Linda Rising, Bob Hanmer, and Joe Yoder about patterns, pattern writing, and the excitement of Mini-PLoP at ooPSLA.