The Factory Design Pattern

You gotta love the Factory Design Pattern. It's great.... really !

But like many great things, people can get a little over excited and then you end up with a Factory factory factory.

This is a great article "Why I Hate Frameworks". It made me giggle.

It's a great software analogy about hammers. On the subject of software analogies - this morning I came accross the old "Dining Philosophers Problem". It's one of those things you cover in college.

Edsger Dijkstra only passed away in August 2002. It's been a long time since I read that stuff. A lot of "eating of code and thinking about spagetti" has gone by since then (and no I don't mean I've been writting spagetti-code).