BRIAN FOOTE

Latest HTML edition of Big Ball of Mud

Seventeen Secrets of the Great Legacy Makeover Masters from QCon New York 2012

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brian's research interests include object-oriented programming, design, reuse, languages, frameworks, software architecture, patterns, reflection, metalevel architecture, and software evolution, for starters.

I've managed to come up with electronic copies of all my publications and workshop position papers (and several talks as well) going back to 1985. These can be accessed via the links below. These are organized into the following categories. Some probably belong in more than one category. Direct hypertext links are given for papers for which HTML versions exist (such as Designing Reusable Classes). Links to versions in other formats are given after each paper's pseudo-bibliographic entry.

Labyrinth

Patterns

Frameworks

Reflection

Smalltalk

Contact Information

PATTERN LABYRINTH

PUBLISHED OR WORKSHOPPED PATTERNS

1. BIG BALL OF MUD
2. CONSOLIDATION PHASE
3. CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES
4. CREATE ABSTRACT SUPERCLASS
5. ENGLISH ONLY
6. EVOLVE AGGREGATIONS
7. EXPANSIONARY PHASE
8. FIRST ONE'S FREE
9. FLEXIBLE FOUNDATIONS
10. GENTLE LEARNING CURVE
11. KEEP IT WORKING
12. LINGUA FRANCA
13. LOW SURFACE-TO-VOLUME-RATIO
14. METAMORPHOSIS
15. PIECEMEAL GROWTH
16. PROGRAMMING-BY-DIFFERENCE
17. PROTOTYPE PHASE
18. RECONSTRUCTION
19. SHEARING LAYERS
20. SOFTWARE TECTONICS
21. SWEEPING IT UNDER THE RUG
22. THE SELFISH CLASS
23. THROWAWAY CODE
24. WINNING TEAM
25. WORKS OUT-OF-THE-BOX

DRAFT PATTERNS

1. DEPLOY PEOPLE ALONG THE GRAIN OF THE DOMAIN

PATTERNS

[Foote & Opdyke 1994]
			
Brian Foote and William F. Opdyke
Lifecycle and Refactoring Patterns that Support Evolution and Reuse
First Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '94)
Monticello, Illinois, August 1994
Pattern Languages of Program Design
edited by James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt
Addison-Wesley, 1995

This volume is part of the Addison-Wesley Software Patterns Series.

		

Patterns: PROTOTYPE PHASE || EXPANSIONARY PHASE || CONSOLIDATION PHASE || EVOLVE AGGREGATIONS || CREATE ABSTRACT SUPERCLASS

[Foote & Yoder 1996]
			
Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder
Evolution, Architecture, and Metamorphosis
Second Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '95)
Monticello, Illinois, September 1995
Pattern Languages of Program Design 2
edited by John M. Vlissides, James O. Coplien, and Norman L. Kerth
Addison-Wesley, 1996

This volume is part of the Addison-Wesley Software Patterns Series.

		

Patterns: SOFTWARE TECTONICS || FLEXIBLE FOUNDATIONS || METAMORPHOSIS

[Foote & Yoder 1998]
			
Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder
The Selfish Class
Third Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '96)
Monticello, Illinois, September 1996
Technical Report #WUCS-97-07, September 1996
Department of Computer Science, Washington University
Pattern Languages of Program Design 3
edited by Robert Martin, Dirk Riehle, and Frank Buschmann 
Addison-Wesley, 1998



			

This volume is part of the Addison-Wesley Software Patterns Series.
Brian also wrote an introduction for this volume.

		

Patterns: THE SELFISH CLASS || WORKS OUT-OF-THE-BOX || LOW SURFACE-TO-VOLUME-RATIO || GENTLE LEARNING CURVE || PROGRAMMING-BY-DIFFERENCE || FIRST ONE'S FREE || WINNING TEAM

[Foote & Yoder 1997b]
Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder
Big Ball of Mud
Fourth Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '97/EuroPLoP '97)
Monticello, Illinois, September 1997
Technical Report #WUCS-97-34 (PLoP '97/EuroPLoP '97), September 1997
Department of Computer Science, Washington University

		

Patterns: BIG BALL OF MUD || THROWAWAY CODE || PIECEMEAL GROWTH || KEEP IT WORKING || SHEARING LAYERS || SWEEPING IT UNDER THE RUG || RECONSTRUCTION

[Foote & Roberts 1998]
Brian Foote and Don Roberts
Lingua Franca
Fifth Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '98)
Monticello, Illinois, August 1998
Technical Report #WUCS-98-25 (PLoP '98/EuroPLoP '98), September 1998
Department of Computer Science, Washington University

		

Patterns: ENGLISH ONLY || CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES || LINGUA FRANCA

[Foote & Yoder 1998b]
Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder
Metadata
Fifth Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP '98)
Monticello, Illinois, August 1998
Technical Report #WUCS-98-25 (PLoP '98/EuroPLoP '98), September 1998
Department of Computer Science, Washington University

		

Also see the UIUC Metadata Pattern Mining '98 Workshop page.

[Foote 1999]
Brian Foote
A Smalltalk Patterns Safari
Smalltalk Solutions 99
New York, New York
Monday, 15 March 1999
John Pugh, program chair

		

[Noble & Foote 2002]
James Noble & Brian Foote
Attack of the Clones (Chinese)
Koala PLoP 2002, Melbourne, Australia

		

FRAMEWORKS

[Foote 1988a]
Brian Foote (Advisor: Ralph Johnson)
Designing to Facilitate Change with Object-Oriented Frameworks
Masters Thesis, 1988
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This may be the world's best documented piece of Squeak code. -- Ralph Johnson, 2/98

[Johnson & Foote 1988]
Ralph Johnson and Brian Foote
Designing Reusable Classes
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
Volume 1, Number 2, June/July 1988

		

Click here for a table of the Design Rules from this paper.

[Foote 1988b]
Brian Foote
Domain Specific Frameworks Emerge as a System Evolves
Workshop on Methodologies and Object-Oriented Programming
OOPSLA '88, San Diego, CA
Norman L. Kerth, organizer

[Foote 1988c]
Brian Foote
Designing Realtime Frameworks
Workshop on Realtime Systems
OOPSLA '88, San Diego, CA
John Gilbert, organizer

[Foote 1989b]
Brian Foote
The Craftsmen vs. the Scavengers:
Ruminations of a Foot Soldier on the Reuse Revolution
Workshop on the Reusable Component Marketplace
OOPSLA '89, New Orleans, LA 
John T. Mason, organizer

		

[Foote 1991b]
Brian Foote
The Fractal Model of the Lifecycles of Reusable Objects
Workshop on Reuse
OOPSLA '91, Phoenix, AZ
Rebecca Joos and John D. McGregor, organizers

		

[Foote 1993b]
Brian Foote
The Fractal Model of the Lifecycles of Reusable Objects
Workshop on Process Standards and Iteration
OOPSLA '93, Washington, DC
Monday, 27 September 1993
James O. Coplien, Russell Winder, and Susan Hutz, organizers

		

[Foote 1995a]
Brian Foote
Where Do Reusable Objects Come From?
Invited Talk, Software Engineering Summer School
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Friday, 16 June 1995
Billy Lim, instructor/organizer

		

[Foote 1995b]
Brian Foote
The Fractal Model of the Lifecycles of Reusable Objects
Workshop on OO Process and Metric for Effort Estimation
15 October, 1995
Dennis de Champeaux, Simon Horner, and Granville Miller, organizers
OOPSLA '95, Austin, TX

		

[Foote 1997]
Brian Foote
Confessions of a Framework Zealot
Workshop on Developing Successful Object-Oriented Frameworks
			
OOPSLA ’97, Atlanta, GA
Sunday, 5 October 1997
Todd Hansen, Steven Fraser, Craig Hilsenrath, Bill Opdyke, and Arthur Riel, organizers

[Foote 1998]
Brian Foote
Escape From the Spaghetti Code Jungle
Keynote Address, Sprint Object-Oriented User's Group (SOOUG)
1998 Winter Meeting, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 17 February 1998
Dave Wiltz, organizer

		

For more information on refactoring, see our Lifecycle and Refactoring Patterns paper and John Brant's Refactory page.

[Heffley et al. 1985]
Earle Heffley, Brian Foote, Tony Mui & Emanuel Donchin
Pearl II:  Portable Laboratory Computer System
for Psychophysiological Assessment using Event Realted Brain Potentails
Neurobehavioral Toxicology and Teratology, Vol. 7, pp 399-407, 1985 

		

[Foote et al.]
Brian Foote Kent Beck, Martin Fowler,
John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, Erich Gamma, Neil Harrison, et al.
The Show Trial of the Gang of Four For Crimes Against Computer Science
OOPSLA '99, Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, 3 November 1999

		

Click here to read the in absentia confession entered by the court for Richard Helm.

[Foote & Hill 2000]
Brian Foote & Laura Hill
Programming at the Edge of Chaos: The Emergence of eXtreme Programming
XP 2000, Caligari, Sardinia, 21-23 June 2000
(Extended Abstract, Accepted but Undelivered)

		

[Overbey et al. 2005]
Jeffrey Overbey, Spiros Xanthos, Ralph Johnson, and Brian Foote
Refactorings for Fortran and High-Performance Computing
Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for High-Performance Computing System Applications
ICSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, 15 May 2005

		

[Foote 2005]
Brian Foote
Total Code Makeover: Changing the Face of High-Performance CodeTM SM
Talk on HPC and Refactoring, CCT Vistor's Program
Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

		

REFLECTION

[Foote & Johnson 1989]
Brian Foote and Ralph E. Johnson
Reflective Facilities in Smalltalk-80
OOPSLA '89, New Orleans, LA 
October 1-6 1989, pages 327-335

[HTML] [Word] [RTF] [PostScript]

[Foote 1989a]
Brian Foote
Class Warfare: Classes vs. Prototypes
Workshop on Objects without Classes
OOPSLA '89, New Orleans, LA 
David Ungar, organizer

		

[HTML] [Word]

[Foote 1990]
Brian Foote
Object-Oriented Reflective Metalevel Architectures:  Pyrite or Panacea?
Workshop on Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
OOPSLA/ECOOP '90, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mamdouh Ibrahim, Brian Foote, Jean-Pierre Briot, Gregor Kiczales,
Satoshi Matsuoka, and Takuo Watanabe, organizers

		

[Foote 1991b]
Brian Foote
Flexible Foundations and Movable Walls
Workshop on Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
OOPSLA '91, Phoenix, AZ
Mamdouh Ibrahim, Brian Foote, Pierre Cointe, Gregor Kiczales,
Satoshi Matsuoka, and Takuo Watanabe, organizers

		

[Foote 1992a]
Brian Foote
Objects, Reflection, and Open Languages
Workshop on Object-Oriented Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
ECOOP '92 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Brian Foote, chair
Satoshi Matsuoka, Pierre Cointe, organizers
Mamdouh Ibrahim, Gregor Kiczales, advisors

		

The electronic proceedings of the workshop are also available via ftp.

[Foote 1992b]
Brian Foote
Living Languages
Workshop on Progamming Languages:  The Next Generation
OOPSLA '92, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mamdouh Ibrahim, chair

		

[Foote 1992c]
Brian Foote
Objects, Reflection, and Open Languages (abstract)
IMSA 1992 Workshop on Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
Tokyo, Japan
Akinori Yonezawa and Brian C. Smith, editors

		

[Foote 1993b]
Brian Foote
Architectural Balkanization in the Post-Linguistic Era
Workshop on Object-Oriented Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
OOPSLA '93, Washington, DC
Friday, 1 October 1993
Brian Foote, chair
Pierre Cointe, Dan Friedman, Jacques Malenfant,
Dave Thomas, and Yasuhiko Yokote, organizers

		

[Foote 1994a]
Object-Oriented Reflection and Metalevel Architectures
Workshop Report, OOPSLA '93, Washington, DC
Addendum to the Proceedings
OOPS Messinger, Volume 5, Number 2, April 1994
Jerry L. Archibald and Mark C. Wilkes, editors

		

The electronic samizdat proceedings of the workshop are available via ftp.

[Foote 1994b]
Brian Foote
Reflection as a Basis for Subjectivity
Workshop on Subjectivity in Object-Oriented Programming
William Harrison, Harold Ossher,
Randall B. Smith, and David Ungar, organizers
OOPSLA '94, Portland, OR

		

[Foote 1994c]
Brian Foote
An Object-Oriented Framework for Reflective Metalevel Architectures
Thesis Proposal, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, 17 November 1994

		

[Foote 1995b]
Brian Foote
An Objective Look at Subjectivity
Workshop on Subjectivity in Object-Oriented Programming
William Harrison, Harold Ossher, and Hafedh Mili, organizers
OOPSLA '95, Austin, TX

		

[Brant et al. 1998]
John Brant, Brian Foote, Ralph E. Johnson, and Donald Roberts
Wrappers to the Rescue
Proceedings of the 12th European Conferences on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP '98)
Brussels, Belgium, 20-24 July 1998
To appear as part of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series

		

[Word] [RTF] [PostScript]

[Foote 1998]
Brian Foote
Reflective Programming in Smalltalk
Smalltalk Solutions 98
New York, New York
Thursday, 7 May 1998
John Pugh, program chair

		

[Foote & Yoder 1998b]
Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder
Metadata
Workshop on Metadata and Active Object-Models
OOPSLA '98, Vancouver, Canada 
Sunday, 18 October 1998
Joseph Yoder, Brian Foote, Dirk Riehle, and Michel Tilman, organizers

		

[Foote, Johnson, & Noble 2005]
Brian Foote, Ralph E. Johnson, and James Noble
Efficient Multimethods in a Single Dispatch Language
ECOOP 2005, Glasgow, Scotland
25-29 July 2005, Andrew Black, Programme Chair
Copyright © 2005 by Springer-Verlag


		

SMALLTALK

I have been working with Smalltalk-80 for over ten years, beginning with Dave Ungar's BS, and the Apple Smalltalk that appeared on the Lisa and Macintosh during the mid-80s. From there, I've worked my way though the succession of ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 incarnations. I was exposed early on to Smalltalk-V as well. Smalltalk has been at the foundation of much of my work, including Designing to Facilitate Change with Object-Oriented Frameworks and Reflective Facilities in Smalltalk-80.

I am a member (a charter member, in fact) of Ralph Johnson's Smalltalk Group at the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Smalltalk Group curates the UIUC's Smalltalk Archive.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Brian Foote

Urbana, IL  61801  USA
(217) 390-7946 (Mobile)
Email: foote@laputan.org

Curriculum Vitae [HTML][Word]

Catfish in the Memepool

Search WWW Search www.laputan.org

Brian Foote foote@laputan.org
Last Modified: 8 July 2012