The Portland Pattern Repository (PPR) is the sub is spelled PeopleProjectsAndPatterns .

Back on September 17, 1987, programmer .

Cunningham s 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 which would later host the PPR on its Internet domain, was incorporated at the Oregon Secretary of State s Corporation Division of Salem, Oregon, on Novermber 1, 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 October 23, 1994.

On c2.com, Ward created the Portland Pattern Repository as a means to help conferences about object-oriented programming (OOP), which are well-known among object-oriented programmers, and posted their ideas on the PPR and exchanged e-mail messages with Ward.

The PPR is accompanied on c2.com by the first ever .

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