Paul S. R. Chisholm
Here are some of the Wiki pages I've started, or contributed significantly to:
Software Has No Shape | Project Management | Mapping Staff To Roles | Redundant Servers And Domain Name Service | Prescriptive Pattern Language | Case Tool | Pair Programming | Oopsla Trip Reports | Programming Is For Trains | Understanding Is Love | Elvis Imitators | Bad Proven Practice | Soft Issues And Other Hard Problems | Clearing The Room Witha Bad Joke | Definitive Cee Plus Plus Books | Definitive Perl Books
(and others; but there's no way I'm updating the list).
15 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. 1.5 years (as a Senior Software Developer and then Manager, Content Acquisition Software) at Air Media, Inc (formerly Ex Machina). 15 months at Ascend Communications, and then 3.5 years at Lucent Technologies after they bought Ascend ... and out in one of the waves of 10,000 people being laid off. About 1.5 years (as a Principal Software Engineer, then Manager, C++ Foundation Classes) at dynamicsoft, and then (still as a manager) at Cisco Systems after they bought dynamicsoft. Neither my ACM nor Lucent addresses work any more; my Yahoo! ID is p.s.r.chisholm (but without the periods; isn't it sad what we do to protect ourselves from spam?).
No home page outside Wiki (at the moment).
I attended PLoP '94 and loved it, but unfortunately have missed the conferences since then. I was at Oopsla In San Jose, moderating a panel (see Soft Issues And Other Hard Problems) with Larry Constantine, Luke Hohmann, Norm Kerth, and Ward Cunningham. And organizing a workshop with Norm Kerth
(along with Ward Cunningham and Luke Hohmann). I had a pattern language on tracing, logging, and alarming reviewed at the TelePLoP workshop;
(and did some significant development for the Air Media network to back it up!); I need to get that thing published somewhere. I went a lot of years between conferences, but recently attended SD Best Practices (formerly Software Development East) 2004 in Boston; good stuff.
Paul provided much of the inspiration and rationale for the Mercenary Analyst pattern, which some of us were just discussing using on our project.
Jim Coplien has mentor'ed Paul in object technology in general, C++ in particular, and got him interested in patterns over beers at OOPSLA '93 in Washington, DC.
I was an usher at the wedding of Michael Lindner and Lo Ann Lindner (nee Reiling).
I've maintained my Gad Fly status in the object, patterns, and agile communities by being a technical reviewer for the "Gang of Four" Design Patterns book; Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by Jim Coplien; Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change; Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win by Ken Auer and Ron Miller; Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler; and Kent Beck's Test Driven Development By Example (listed in acknowledgements of each book).
I'm currently using Media Wiki (the software used for Wikipedia) at Cisco. It's amazing how quickly people go from never having heard of a wiki to not knowing how they ever lived without one.
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