Over the past years I’ve held many workshops on Domain-Driven Design. We had more than one hundred people on those sessions, and feedback was often pretty good. After my last run I told my business partner that this was my last time running those workshops.
I think that Domain-Driven Design is one of the most […]
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Nevermind Domain-Driven Design
Published by March 22nd, 2010 in agile, books, c#, domain driven design, domain specific languages, events, java, language oriented programming, layers, object orientation, software architecture, software design and trends. 5 CommentsEveryday Tales: Anatomy of a Refactoring – Part 3
Published by March 10th, 2010 in agile, books, case study, domain driven design, everyday tales, layers, object orientation, software architecture, software design and trends. 4 CommentsWe finished last post with this funny situation: the abstraction that represents Facebook depends on our Domain Model.
It was a bit obvious that what we needed was not only system abstractions for Facebook, Twitter and the like but Bounded Contexts. We need to acknowledge the fact that these domains are not part of our model, […]
Everyday Tales: Anatomy of a Refactoring – Part 2
Published by March 10th, 2010 in agile, books, case study, domain driven design, everyday tales, layers, object orientation, software architecture, software design and trends. 1 CommentRead the first post here.
In the previous post we were facing the problem demonstrated by the diagram below.
Our FacebookMessageParser needs an instance of AllSocialNetworks so that it can create valid Users coming from Facebook. The only implementation we have for the AllSocialNetworks interface is UserRepository, and this implementation needs a FacebookMessageParser. That’s a circular dependency, […]
Coders at Work: My Review
Published by December 29th, 2009 in agile, books, software design and trends. 2 CommentsI just finished reading Peter Seibel’s new book, Coders at Work.
I was a bit skeptical at first. I only picked the book because of the big names on the cover and because Peter Siebel’s Practical Common Lisp is one of my favourite books on learn-a-new-programming-language. I thought that a book filled only with interviews with […]
Duke Nukem Forever and Magic Bags of Money
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in agile, business, case study, digital media, economics, management, thoughtworks and trends. 3 CommentsWired has a very interesting piece on how the Duke Nukem Forever project failed. It’s not only relevant because DNF is part of the nerd culture but also because it is a very interesting tale about a company that could not achieve a reasonable Definition of Done (DoD).
In software development we often talk about Done […]
I Wish I Knew That Before Getting This Job – Slides and (Long) Notes
Published by November 24th, 2009 in agile, business, c#, components, domain driven design, domain specific languages, economics, events, java, layers, management, object orientation, software architecture, software design, thoughtworks and trends. 0 CommentsAs I said here before I was in Brazil some weeks ago to present at a conference. I had a really great time over there with some amazing people and would like to thank Caelum for their hard work in creating such a great conference. I’m making the slide deck and notes available in my […]
ThoughtWorks Away Day Presentation: Common Myths about Type Systems
Published by August 12th, 2009 in c#, clojure, groovy, haskell, java, language oriented programming, lisp, object orientation, rails, ruby, software design, thoughtworks and trends. 7 CommentsIn ThoughtWorks we get together at least once an year for a whole weekend to drink beer and do whatever people consider interesting. This year’s ThoughtWorks Australia Away Day (AKA Team Hug) was somewhere in Victoria and among other activities (and a bus crash) we had technical sessions.
I used one of those slots to do […]
Nick showed me this today. My favourite part:
At a workshop once, Pete McBreen said “The Agile methods are methods created by people who like to program.” While that’s not entirely true, we bet it’s more true of that particular bunch of people than of any previous gaggle of methodologists. And their oddity went even further: […]
My Submission for Agile Australia 2009
Published by June 23rd, 2009 in agile, events, management, software design, thoughtworks and trends. 0 CommentsAgile Australia 2009 is close and the deadline for talk proposals ends next week. I’ve submitted one talk proposal:
Where do Acceptance Tests go to die?
Often the first thing a mature agile developer does when picking up a new card from the story wall is to create an automated test to validate its acceptance criteria. After […]
Watch Your Language!
Published by June 11th, 2009 in business, case study, digital media, domain driven design, domain specific languages, language adaptation, language oriented programming, software design and trends. 10 CommentsIt was one of my first days in the job. I was hired to head the development of several products for a media company and my new boss and I went to my first meeting.
The room was full of different types of people. You could tell those who were media producers from the managers […]
