Portland Pattern Repository

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The Portland Pattern Repository (PPR) is a repository for computer programming
software design patterns. It was accompanied by a companion website, WikiWikiWeb,
which was the world's first wiki. The repository has an emphasis on Extreme
Programming, and it is hosted by Cunningham & Cunningham (C2) of Portland, Oregon.
[1] The PPR's motto is "People, Projects & Patterns".

Contents
1 History
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
History
On 17 September 1987, programmer Ward Cunningham, then with Tektronix, and Apple
Computer's Kent Beck co-published the paper "Using Pattern Languages for Object-
Oriented Programs"[2] This paper, about software design patterns, was inspired by
Christopher Alexander's architectural concept of "patterns"[2] It was written for
the 1987 OOPSLA programming conference organized by the Association for Computing
Machinery. Cunningham and Beck's idea became popular among programmers because it
helped them exchange programming ideas in a format that is easy to understand.
Cunningham & Cunningham, the programming consultancy that would eventually host the
PPR on its Internet domain, was incorporated in Salem, Oregon on 1 November 1991,
and is named after Ward and his wife, Karen R. Cunningham, a mathematician, school
teacher, and school director. Cunningham & Cunningham registered their Internet
domain, c2.com, on 23 October 1994. Ward created the Portland Pattern Repository on
c2.com as a means to help object-oriented programmers publish their computer
programming patterns by submitting them to him. Some of those programmers attended
the OOPSLA and PLoP conferences about object-oriented programming, and posted their
ideas on the PPR. The PPR is accompanied, on c2.com, by the first ever wiki�a
collection of reader-modifiable Web pages�which is called WikiWikiWeb.[3]