Ward Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949 ) is an American programmer . He is known as the founder of the Wiki Wiki Web and as a pioneer in design patterns and extreme programming .
On March 25, 1995, he founded the Wiki Wiki Web (also known as WardsWiki ) for the Portland Pattern Repository, the first wiki , an online journal for design patterns for programs and the first point of contact when it comes to developing software using Extreme Programming . Cunningham is one of the authors and an early signer of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development .
From December 2003 to October 2005 he worked for Microsoft . From October 2005 to May 2007 he was with the Eclipse Foundation and since May 2007 he has been Chief Technical Officer of the Internet directory AboutUs.org . He lives in Beaverton , Oregon .
Cunningham's Law
Cunningham is credited with saying, "The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to spread the wrong answer." Steven McGeady received this advice from Cunningham in the early 1980s and later made it known as " Cunningham's Law ". While Cunningham was referring to Usenet at the time , it was used to describe how Wikipedia works, which Cunningham created with WikiWikiWeb. Cunningham himself contradicts in a short YouTube video: the law would refute itself as it spreads over the Internet.
Publications
- Bo Leuf , Ward Cunningham: The Wiki way: quick collaboration on the Web. Addison-Wesley, London 2001, ISBN 0-201-71499-X .
- Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham: Fit for developing software: framework for integrated tests. Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2005, ISBN 0-321-26934-9 .
Web links
- Wikimedia Foundation: Interview / Ward Cunningham
- The Wiki of the Portland Pattern Repository (English)
- Ward Cunningham's signature page in the WardsWiki
- Ward Cunningham Interview at SQLSummit (MP3 podcast, English) ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jurisimprudence - The New York Times. In: schott.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ NOT CUNNINGHAM'S LAW - Ward Cunningham - YouTube. In: youtube.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Cunningham, Ward |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cunningham, Howard G. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American programmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1949 |