11 February, 2009. It was a Wednesday. I found the Motivator this morning. It lets you create your own motivational pictures. So, here’s my first run at creating the SOLID software development ...

18 September, 2009. It was a Friday. I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

3 September, 2010. It was a Friday. Moving from subversion to git can be a struggle, trying to understand what terms like checkout, commit, branch, remote, rebase all mean in the git world. I learned ...

8 October, 2012. It was a Monday. So I’m over Repositories, and definitely over abstracting your data layer, but where does that leave us? I don’t think creating an abstraction over your ORM provides ...

6 February, 2013. It was a Wednesday. In my Scaling Backbone Apps With Marionette talk, I have some slides that deal with JavaScript zombies in Backbone apps. This isn’t a new subject by any means. It ...

13 May, 2014. It was a Tuesday. Domain events are one of the final patterns needed to create a fully encapsulated domain model – one that fully enforces a consistency boundary and invariants. The need ...

5 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. CQRS is a simple pattern – two objects for command/queries where once there was one. These days just about every system I build utilizes CQRS, as it’s a natural ...

22 September, 2011. It was a Thursday. A long time ago, when I first started blogging with LosTechies, I wrote up a few posts on Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection, and how I finally ...

21 August, 2008. It was a Thursday. Services are first-class citizens of the domain model. When concepts of the model would distort any Entity or Value Object, a Service is appropriate. From Evans’ ...