In my travels, I’ve heard a lot of people embrace test driven development (TDD) and I’ve heard a lot of people say that it isn’t for them. For the most part, it’s been my experience that people who say it isn’t for them have either never really, actually done it or haven’t done it enough…
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you might have seen me engage in talk about the MacLeod Hierarchy from time to time in the comments with various posters. We’re referring to a concept where the denizens of a corporate organization fall into one of three categories: Losers, Clueless, and Sociopaths. It’s explained…
If you have a long, error-prone process, automate it. This is the essential underpinning of what we all do for a living and informs our day to day routines. Whether we’re making innovative new consumer applications, games, line of business applications, or anything else, we look at other people’s lives and say, “we can make…
Believe it or not, it turns out that I actually get a pretty decent amount of emails (and growing) asking for advice in various forms or making requests for posts about various subjects. Typically, I answer and/or correspond as time allows and am fortunate to have a number of interesting conversations in this fashion. It’s…
Lately I’ve been working on a project that uses a layered architecture with DDD principles. There’s a repository layer and, below that, lies the purity of the domain modeling. Above that is an API service layer and then various flavors of presentation, as needed. One of the toughest thing to explain to people who are…
