Joseph is an international speaker, pattern author, and longstanding member of The Hillside Group where he currently serves as the President of the Hillside Board, a group dedicated to improving the quality of software development. He is co-author of the Big Ball of Mud pattern, which illuminates many fallacies in the approach to software architecture. Joseph has chaired the Pattern Languages of Programming Conference (PLoP), given a keynote address at Agile Portugal, helped organize SugarLoaf PLoP, ChiliPLoP, and PLoPs for many years, as well as presented tutorials and talks at conferences such as OOPSLA, Agile PT, SATURN, CBSoft, and ECOOP. He has also contributed with tracks at QCon San Francisco, assisted the new AsianPLoP with their first conference, organized a web 2.0 workshop at the TOOLS conference in Europe, and presented papers and tutorials at many conferences around the world. >> Read More

Adaptive Object Model Researcher and Design Pattern Writer  Joe has been involved for quite some time working on and deploying Adaptive Systems or Domain-Specific Languages for clients. Joe thinks software is still too hard to change. He wants to do something about this and believes that by using good patterns and by putting the ability to change software into the hands of the people with the domain knowledge seems to be some promising avenues to solve this problem. Joe has written papers, presentations, and tutorials on Adaptive Object-Models, metamodeling, frameworks, and has organized many workshops on this topic. Take a look at his research and papers to find out more about his studies and specialties. >> Read More