publications & presentations 

Some of Kevlin Henney's articles, and conference presentations and papers. Papers are grouped by publication, conference or organisation, as appropriate. Affiliated groups are listed alphabetically with most recent papers first.

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The PfA Papers: Deglobalisation (HTML), Overload 83, February 2008

The PfA Papers: Context Matters (HTML), Overload 82, December 2007

The PfA Papers: The Clean Dozen (HTML), Overload 81, October 2007

The PfA Papers: From the Top (HTML), Overload 80, August 2007

Pattern Connections (PDF, 347 KB), ACCU Conference 2007, April 2007

A Practical Form of OO Layering (HTML), by Teedy Deigh, Overload 78, April 2007

Vorsprung Durch Testing (HTML), Overload 69, October 2006

A Critical View of C++ Practices (PDF, 318KB), ACCU Silicon Valley, March 2006

C-side Re-sort (HTML), Overload 68, August 2005

Five Considerations (PDF, 45KB), keynote at ACCU Conference 2005, April 2005

More C++ Threading: From Procedural to Generic, by Example (PDF, 417KB), ACCU Conference 2004, April 2004

Pattern Writing: Live and Direct (PDF, 394KB), with Frank Buschmann, ACCU Conference 2003, April 2003

C++ Threading: A Generic-Programming Approach (PDF, 336KB), ACCU Conference 2003, April 2003

The Imperial Clothing Crisis (HTML), Minimalism series in Overload 47, February 2002

Omit Needless Code (HTML), Minimalism series in Overload 45, October 2001

Interface-Based Development (PDF, 576KB), JaCC, March 2000

Design: Concepts and Practices (PDF, 416KB), keynote at JaCC, September 1999

Substitutability: Principles, Idioms and Techniques for C++ (PDF, 768KB), JaCC, September 1999

Clone Alone (PDF, 197KB), Overload 33, August 1999, revised 2003

Idioms: Breaking the Language Barrier (PDF, 528 KB), C and C++ European Developers Forum, September 1998

Counted Body Techniques (HTML), Overload 25, April 1998, hosted by Boost

Constraining Template Parameter Types (HTML), /tmp/late/* series in Overload 12, February 1996, republished in ACC⁺⁺ent 1(9), September 2000

Go with the Flow (HTML), The Elements of Style series in CVu 7(6), September 1995

Brevity is the Soul of Wit (HTML), The Elements of Style series in CVu 7(2), January 1995

Literate Programming (HTML), The Elements of Style series in CVu 7(1), November 1994

Don't Think About Elephants (HTML), The Elements of Style series in CVu 6(6), September 1994

Writing Your Own Stream Manipulators (HTML), Overload 5, August–September 1994

Driven to Tests (PDF, 52KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 9(3), May–June 2005

Learning Curve (PDF, 54KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 9(2), March–April 2005

Unequal Equivalence (PDF, 52KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 9(1), January–February 2005

First among Equals (PDF, 92KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 8(6), November–December 2004

No Memory for Contracts (PDF, 130KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 8(5), September–October 2004

Opposites Attract (PDF, 50KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 8(4), July–August 2004

Conventional and Reasonable (PDF, 45KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 8(3), May–June 2004

Form Follows Function (PDF, 191KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 8(2), March–April 2004

Objects of Value (PDF, 51KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 7(6), November–December 2003

Prefer Code to Comments (PDF, 51KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 7(5), September–October 2003

Sorted (PDF, 194KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 7(4), July–August 2003

Inside Requirements (PDF, 40KB), Programmer's Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 7(3), May–June 2003

What's in a Name? (PDF, 138KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 7(2), March–April 2003

Put to the Test (PDF, 56KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(9), November–December 2002

The Next Best String (PDF, 76KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(8), October 2002

Highly Strung (PDF, 54KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(7), September 2002

Stringing Things Along (PDF, 185KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(6), July–August 2002

The Rest of the Best (PDF, 65KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(5), June 2002

Six of the Best (PDF, 59KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(4), May 2002

Flag Waiving (PDF, 138KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(3), April 2002

XP Day – The Story of an XP Event (PDF, 21KB), contribution to David Norfolk's To XP or not to XP? article in Application Development Advisor 6(2), March 2002

Look Me Up Sometime (PDF, 139KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(2), March 2002

Bound and Checked (PDF, 67KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 6(1), January–February 2002

The Perfect Couple (PDF, 99KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 5(9), November–December 2001

Promoting Polymorphism (PDF, 129KB), C++ Workshop column in Application Development Advisor 5(8), October 2001

Standardising on C++ (PDF, 61KB), Effective C++ column in Application Development Advisor 5(7), September 2001

If I Had a Hammer... (PDF, 58KB), Effective C++ column in Application Development Advisor 5(6), July–August 2001

One Careful Owner (PDF, 90KB), Effective C++ column in Application Development Advisor 5(5), June 2001

Making an Exception (PDF, 94KB), Effective C++ column in Application Development Advisor 5(4), May 2001

The Miseducation of C++ (PDF, 110KB), Effective C++ column in Application Development Advisor 5(3), April 2001

Mind Your Language (PDF, 83KB), Application Development Advisor 3(3), January–February 2000

Speaking in Tongues (PDF, 196KB), Application Development Advisor 2(1), September–October 1998

Code versus Software (HTML), The Road to Code blog at Artima, 25th August 2004

The Taxation of Representation (HTML), The Road to Code blog at Artima, 30th July 2003

Five Possible Things after Breakfast (HTML), The Road to Code blog at Artima, 23rd June 2003

Valued Conversions (PDF, 365KB), From Mechanism to Method column in C++ Report 12(7), July–August 2000 also reprinted in Overload 40, December 2000

Substitutability (PDF, 381KB), From Mechanism to Method column in C++ Report 12(5), May 2000, also reprinted in Overload 39, September 2000

Creating Stable Assignments (PDF, 873KB), C++ Report 10(6), June 1998

A Fair Share (Part 1) (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, October 2002

State Government (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, June 2002

The Safe Stacking of Cats (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, February 2002

Generic Decoupling (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, November 2001

Further Qualifications (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, September 2001

Data Abstraction and Heterarchy (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, August 2001

Distinctly Qualified (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, May 2001, also reprinted in Overload 55, June 2003

Total Ellipse (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, March 2001, also reprinted in Overload 53, February 2003

Good Qualifications (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, January 2001, also reprinted in Overload 52, December 2002

Function Follows Form (HTML), From Mechanism to Method column in C/C++ Users Journal online, November 2000, also reprinted in Overload 48, April 2002

For the Sake of Simplicity (HTML), EXE, July 1999

C++ RTTI: Casting Around (HTML), EXE, October 1998

C++ Stylistics (YouTube), Google TechTalk, March 2008

Patterns at Work (HTML), IASA Architect Skills Library, March 2007, also available as PDF

N1973: Lexical Conversion Library Proposal for TR2 (HTML), with Beman Dawes, JTC1/SC22/WG21, April 2006 (under consideration)

N1939: Any Library Proposal for TR2 (HTML), with Beman Dawes, JTC1/SC22/WG21, February 2006 (under consideration)

N1883: Preliminary Threading Library Proposal for TR2 (PDF, 154KB), JTC1/SC22/WG21, August 2005 (not accepted)

N1680: Memory Model for Multithreaded C++ (PDF, 109KB), with Andrei Alexandrescu, Hans Boehm, Doug Lea and Bill Pugh, JTC1/SC22/WG21, September 2004 (incorporated into accepted proposals)

N0896: Const Qualification of String Literals (ASCII), JTC1/SC22/WG21, 1996 (accepted)

N0798: CV-Qualified Constructors (HTML), JTC1/SC22/WG21, 1995 (not accepted)

N0684: An Alternative Wide Character Type (ASCII), JTC1/SC22/WG21, 1995 (not accepted)

Beyond Metaphor (PDF, 163KB), end keynote at JAOO, September 2003

Objects and Unicorns (PDF, 164KB), JAOO, September 2003

Beyond the Gang of Four (PDF, 230KB), with Frank Buschmann, JAOO, September 2003

Value-Based Programming in Java (PDF, 209KB), JAOO, September 2002

Minimalism: A Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (PDF, 179KB), JAOO, September 2002

Inside the Agility Cube (Part 2) (slides and audio), JavaPolis '06, September 2007

Inside the Agility Cube (Part 1) (slides and audio), JavaPolis '06, August 2007

A Tale of Three Patterns (PDF, 71KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 6(10), October 2001, also available in HTML from the Java Report archives

Another Tale of Two Patterns (PDF, 57KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 6(3), March 2001

A Tale of Two Patterns (PDF, 85KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 5(12), December 2000, also available in HTML from the Java Report archives

Collections for States (PDF, 115KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 5(8), August 2000

Matters of State (PDF, 111KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 5(6), June 2000

Value Added (PDF, 156KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 5(4), April 2000

Patterns of Value (PDF, 168KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 5(2), February 2000

Something for Nothing (PDF, 257KB), Patterns in Java column in Java Report 4(12), December 1999, also available in HTML from the Java Report archives (includes references omitted from PDF version)

One or Many? (PDF, 134KB), original English draft of Patterns in Java column published as Eins oder Viele? in JavaSPEKTRUM, September–October 2003

Encapsulation (PDF, 141KB), original English draft of Patterns in Java column published as Kapselung in JavaSPEKTRUM, July–August 2003

Unfinished Symmetry (PDF, 131KB), original English draft of Patterns in Java column published as Unvollendete Symmetrie in Java in JavaSPEKTRUM, May–June 2003

The Temptations of Symmetry (PDF, 134KB), original English draft of Patterns in Java column published as Die Gratwanderung zwischen Symmetrie und Asymmetrie in JavaSPEKTRUM, September–October 2002

The Importance of Symmetry (PDF, 144KB), original English draft of Patterns in Java column published as Symmetrie in Java in JavaSPEKTRUM, July–August 2002

Pattern Connections (PDF, 248KB), JavaZone, September 2005

Programmer's Dozen (PDF, 314KB), JavaZone, September 2003

Getting over the Waterfall (PDF, 3.2MB), Objective View 10, October 2006

Abstraction: Down on the Upside (PDF, 2.2MB), Objective View 9, February 2006

The Timeless Way of Programming: Patterns of Class Design (HTML), OMT User Group seminar on The Practical Application of OMT, January 1996

Metaphors We Program By (HTML), with Andy Longshaw, workshop output from SPA2007, March 2007

The Diary of Bridget Jones the Weekend Before OT (HTML), a winning competition entry from OT99, March 1999

Distributed Programming Patterns (PDF, 73KB), workshop output from OT2000, March 2000

Objects of Desire, Dutch PHP Conference, June 2007

Metaphor in Software Development (PDF, 188KB), with Andy Longshaw, report of focus group at EuroPLoP 2006, July 2006

Context Encapsulation (PDF, 359KB), updated version of paper workshopped at EuroPLoP 2005, July 2005

Relative Values (PDF, 177KB), updated version of paper workshopped at VikingPLoP 2004, September 2004

Stable Intermediate Forms (PDF, 199KB), conference proceedings version of paper workshopped at EuroPLoP 2004, July 2004

The Good, the Bad, and the Koyaanisqatsi (PDF, 184KB), conference proceedings version of paper workshopped at VikingPLoP 2003, September 2003

Factory and Disposal Methods (PDF, 193KB), conference proceedings version of paper workshopped at VikingPLoP 2003, September 2003

Methods for States (PDF, 181KB), conference proceedings version of paper workshopped at VikingPLoP 2002, September 2002

Null Object (PDF, 211KB), conference proceedings version of paper workshopped at EuroPLoP 2002, July 2002

Buy the First Round (HTML), drinking/economics pattern that found its way into one of the conference newsletters, EuroPLoP 2001, July 2001

C++ Patterns: Reference Accounting (PDF, 393KB), proceedings version of paper submitted to EuroPLoP 2001, July 2001

Valued Idioms: Patterns for Value-Based Programming (PDF, 439KB), Danmarks Design Patterns studie gruppe, May 2001

C++ Patterns: Executing Around Sequences (PDF, 348KB), proceedings version of paper submitted to EuroPLoP 2000, July 2000

Collections for States (PDF, 229KB), proceedings version of paper submitted to EuroPLoP '99, July 1999

Mutual Registration (PDF, 250KB), proceedings version of paper submitted to EuroPLoP '99, July 1999

Java Patterns and Implementations (HTML), BCS OOPS Patterns Day, October 1997

One Programmer's Unit Test is Another's Integration Test (HTML), column at Reg Developer, July 2007

Driving on the Right Side of the Code (HTML), column at Reg Developer, March 2007

To Iterate Is Human (HTML), column at Reg Developer, September 2006

Up with Cohesion, Down with Coupling (HTML), column at Reg Developer, August 2006

Long Argument Lists (HTML), column at Reg Developer, June 2006

Building Cohesion into Programming (HTML), column at Reg Developer, June 2006

Driven to Tests (HTML), republished from Application Development Advisor at Reg Developer, March 2006

Of Software Bugs and Learning Curves (HTML), republished from Application Development Advisor at Reg Developer, February 2006

Unequal Equivalence (HTML), republished from Application Development Advisor at Reg Developer, January 2006

First Among Equals (HTML), republished from Application Development Advisor at Reg Developer, December 2005

Let's Get Cohesive (HTML), column at Reg Developer, December 2005

STL Patterns: A Design Language of Generic Programming (PDF, 270KB), SD West, March 2005

Using Iterations to Help Balance Priority and Risk (HTML), SearchSoftwareQuality.com, April 2008

Iterative and Incremental Development Explained (HTML), SearchSoftwareQuality.com, December 2007

From Use Case Diagrams to Context Diagrams (HTML), SearchSoftwareQuality.com, November 2007

The Pros and Cons of Use Case Diagrams (HTML), SearchSoftwareQuality.com, September 2007

How to Document Use Cases (HTML), SearchSoftwareQuality.com, July 2007

C++ (MP3, 64 minutes), interviewed by Arno Haase, SE Radio, March 2008

A Pattern Language for Distributed Systems (MP3, 67 minutes), with Frank Buschmann, interviewed by Markus Voelter, SE Radio, July 2007

A Critique of the Advanced Placement C++ Subset (PDF, 116KB), with Mordechai Ben-Ari, SIGCSE Bulletin 29(2), 1997

The Selfish Object (PDF, 330KB), Software Architect 2007, June 2007

The Accidental Complexity of Logic (HTML), Sticky Minds, May 2008

Asynchronous C++ (PDF, 511KB), Visual Tools conference, Oxford, September 1996

What is Software Architecture? (HTML), VSJ, June 2007

Agile Development with C++ (PDF, 224 KB), XP Day, November 2006

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