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"Howard Cunningham" redirects here. For the fictional character, see the article on Happy Days. Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is a computer programmer, and is best known as the inventor of the first wiki, which is called WikiWikiWeb, and one of the pioneers in patterns and Extreme Programming. He started programming WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the Web site of his software consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. Cunningham, known in some software circles simply as Ward, currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon, southwest of Portland. cleaned-up portrait of ward cunningham, released into PD by subject This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. ...
May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
A computer program or software program (usually abbreviated to a program) is a step-by-step list of instructions written for a particular computer architecture in a particular computer programming language. ...
An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
WikiWikiWeb, or simply WikiWiki or Wiki (with a capital W), is the first ever wiki, written in Perl. ...
In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly-occurring problem in software design. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Portland Pattern Repository (PPR) is the subdirectory c2. ...
Beaverton is a city located in Washington County, Oregon, seven miles west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley. ...
Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Official website: http://www. ...
Personal history
Cunningham received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward was part of the Smalltalk community. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
This article treats electronics engineering as a subfield of electrical engineering, though this is not typical use in some areas. ...
Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...
A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ...
See also Purdue University System. ...
Tektronix is a United States corporation that is currently a major presence in the test, measurement, and measuring industry. ...
Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective, programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s, influenced by Sketchpad and Simula. ...
From December 2003 until October 2005 he worked for Microsoft Corporation in the "patterns & practices" group. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ...
As of October 2005, he is the Director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003 - 2004, the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM created The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit legal entity to lead and develop Eclipse. ...
Ideas and inventions Cunningham is well-known for a few widely disseminated ideas which he originated and developed. Among these, the most famous are the wiki (named after WikiWikiWeb), and many patterns in the field of software patterns, including the collection of patterns that later became known as "Extreme Programming" or "XP." WikiWikiWeb, or simply WikiWiki or Wiki (with a capital W), is the first ever wiki, written in Perl. ...
Patterns and Extreme Programming Cunningham is also well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming: in particular, the use of pattern languages, and CRC (Class-Responsibility-Collaboration) cards (with Kent Beck). He is also a significant contributor to Extreme Programming, a software development methodology. A great deal of this work was carried out in the first wiki site itself. His most famous quote is probably, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" Or, it could be, "What's the simplest thing that would definitely work?". The underlying theme in both of these is SIMPLE. In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. ...
A pattern language is a structured method of describing good design practices within a particular domain. ...
Class-Responsibility-Collaboration cards (CRC cards) are a brainstorming tool used in the design of object-oriented software. ...
Kent Beck is one of the three creators of the agile process Extreme Programming and is the author of several books on Extreme Programming, patterns and Smalltalk. ...
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Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ...
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