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PLoP
Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP®) is the premier conference for pattern authors and users to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns. To achieve this, the conference promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages, as well as the underlying theory of the nature of order. PLoP 2024 will be held October 13-16, 2024. Visit the PLoP Official Site,
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The Hillside Mission
The mission of the Hillside Group is to improve the quality of life and society as a whole. This includes architects, developers, managers, owners, workers, educators, students, and more. Understanding and helping the human element is critical for achieving success. The Hillside Group believes in making processes and design more humane by paying attention to real people and existing practices.
The Hillside Group promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages to record, analyze, and share knowledge to help achieve its mission. The Hillside Group sponsors a variety of activities to achieve this mission—organizing workshops, hosting PLoP (pattern) conferences, and producing publications for discussing, recording, and documenting successful practices.
The Hillside Group supports many different conferences such as: PLoP, EuroPLoP, AsianPLoP, VikingPLoP, SugarLoafPLoP, and ChiliPLoP. These conferences focus on writing groups to better improve patterns through group exposure. Each conference offers advanced topics for the more adept pattern writers. Participants have the opportunity to refine and extend their patterns with help from knowledgeable and sympathetic patterns enthusiasts.
Pattern Books
The Design Patterns Book Series showcases many patterns from PLoP conferences and leading experts in the patterns field.
See our Pattern Book Library filled with over 80 Pattern related books.
Patterns Resources
- Pattern Definition
A pattern language defines a consists of patterns and the rules with sequences to combine them.
- Patterns Catalog
A collection of pattern resources on the web. Sign up for an account to add your own.
- Tools for Writing Patterns
Pattern writing tools include example code and pattern writing templates.
- PLoP Conference Proceedings
Past conference proceedings from the PLoP conferences.
PLoP Conferences
Conferences
Australian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
The PLoPTM (Pattern Languages of Programs) series of conferences celebrates who we are as a community of architects, designers and programmers, and strives to share information about those practices that improve the quality of life for our profession and those we serve. KoalaPLoPTM is hosted near Melbourne Australia and is open to pattern authors, pattern users, and software designers and developers from around the world.
Melbourne, Australia
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EuroPLoP™
European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
EuroPLoP™ is a conference that explores, develops and celebrates patterns in software. As with PLoP™ in the US, the main focus of EuroPLoP™ will be a series of writer's workshops where pattern authors work together to improve their patterns. In addition to these workshops there will be discussion groups, BOF sessions and working groups (similar to the Hot Topics at ChiliPLoP™), as well as time for games and relaxation.
All the EuroPLoP™s to date have been held at Kloster Irsee - a former Benedictine monastery in the heart of Bavaria, Germany. Its history can be traced back to the 12th century, and the buildings we see today were erected in the beginning of the 18th century. This beautiful and tranquil setting greatly contributes to the unique EuroPLoP™ atmosphere.
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Southwestern Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
Why ChiliPLoP?
You keep hearing, "ChiliPLoP: A different kind of PLoP." Different how?
Well, we could start with a list of the hot topics and their cool contributors, or the unique opportunity for those new to the patterns community to get some real experience in finding and writing patterns. We could do that, yes, and perhaps you would glean from those descriptions that it is indeed something different. But that wouldn't begin to capture that ChiliPLoP is different not just in its content, but in its entirety. Several of us had the opportunity to visit the site of ChiliPLoP '98 at the Wickenburg Inn in Arizona, and we're very excited about what the entire conference has to offer the patterns community. An environment of creativity and relaxed intensity is what ChiliPLoP has to offer, along with experiences that will entice you to return again and again.
Carefree, Arizona
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Pattern Languages of Programs
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The Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP) was established thirty years ago by The Hillside Group. It gathers people who wish to improve the quality of life through designing and using social and technical systems in a more humane way, effectively articulating professional and other creative practices, and sharing this tacit knowledge more broadly. To achieve this, the conference promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages, as well as the underlying theory of the nature of order. Originating in the work of Christopher Alexander on building architecture, these ideas have been further developed in computer science, fundamentally changing the perception of software development. Much of the pioneering work in this area originated at this and other PLoP conferences throughout the world. Patterns and pattern languages have expanded to many other areas, including art, well-being, learning, psychology, organizational development and change, sociology, and anthropology. PLoP encourages a variety of submissions regardless of the area they target.
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- Hillside Fellowship Award
- PLoP Conference Proceedings
- Patterns for API Design
- Pattern Languages of Programing
- Security Patterns in Practice
The Hillside Fellowship Award
The Hillside Fellowship Program was established in 2016 to recognize members of The Hillside Group who have made exceptional contributions to the Hillside community and to the Patterns community at large. The title of Hillside Fellow denotes an outstanding member who has consistently and repeatedly:
- provided excellence in contributions to the patterns body of knowledge
- advanced the arts,
PLoP Conference Proceedings
After the PLoP Workshops, writers are encouraged to modify their papers and submit a final version. The final versions are collected and submitted to the ACM Digital Library. The versions are also available from the conference website.
Conference Proceedings (ACM Digital Library)
Some of the PLoP accepted papers have been published on the ACM Digital Library . The program committee will
… Read MorePatterns for API Design
" Patterns for API Design " by Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lubke, Uwe Zdun, and Cesare Pautasso
This book is for any domain, technology, or platform
- Identify and overcome API Challenges
- Size your endpoint types and operations
- Design request and response messages and their representations
- Refine your message design for quality
- Combine patterns to solve real-world problems and make
PLoP™ (Oct 13-16, 2024)
Check out the main PLoP Website for more information and details!!!
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Security Patterns in Practice
Eduardo Fernandez's new book " Security Patterns in Practice: Designing Secure Architectures with Software Patterns " has been published.
It is the result of 14 years of producing security patterns with students and colleagues. Almost all of these patterns went through PLoP, EuroPLoP, AsianPLoP, or SugarLoafPLoP. Many of you have participated as shepherds or workshop commentators, the book owes something to
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