Eric Freeman

Eric Freeman is enjoying taking all the pixie dust from his four years as a Disney executive and applying it to his passion, computer science. He recently co-authored Head First Design Patterns for O'Reilly (and never had so much fun). He previously co-authored JavaSpaces: Principles Patterns and Practice. Before Disney, Eric worked closely with his mentor, David Gelernter, on technology and startups. Eric holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in Computer Science and has been honored by an MIT TR100 award, as a top technology innovator.

Articles

Breaking the Last Dependency
All of the factory patterns "encapsulate" the instantiation of concrete classes and help to minimize (as well as localize) the dependencies your code has on those concrete classes. This articles explains what "breaking the last dependency" means, how it relates to the Factory pattern, and why you should care. Apr. 14, 2005

Holiday Party Guide to Patterns
A survey of some of the Gang of Four design patterns: Composite, Singleton, Factory, Adapter, Decorator, Facade, and MVC. Dec. 23, 2004

Weblogs

Java, Coolness, Human Scale and Creative Environments: A third post on Java's "coolness" (or lack thereof), following Kathy Sierra and Brett McLaughlin's ongoing discussion. I argue more lightweight choices built to human scale may help Java recapture vibrance.
Posted by ericfreeman on December 10, 2004 at 14:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (11)

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