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October 17, 2015The first time I read the GoF book, I didn’t understand it. This was because I didn’t had a decent understanding of the principles of object-oriented programming at the time. A...
Read more ...Node-m-r – A Simple CQRS Example using Node.js
December 12, 2013Anyone learning about DDD, CQRS and/or event sourcing has probably read the source code of Greg Young’s simple CQRS example at some point or another. This is one of the simplest...
Read more ...Generic Value Object
June 7, 2009I just wanted to share my attempt for implementing a generic base class for Value Objects, popularized by Eric Evans and the Domain-Driven Design community. I must say that I go...
Read more ...Hello Real DDD World
December 31, 2008I'm really looking forward to the next Dutch ALT.NET meeting where Yves Goeleven will discuss DDD practices while having a look at a real production application. I think we'll h...
Read more ...Properties - A False Sense of Encapsulation
September 26, 2008I'm having more and more mixed feelings about properties in .NET, or accessor methods in general, as properties compile to get_xxx/set_xxx methods behind the covers. I've never ...
Read more ...Decoupled Domain Models
August 26, 2008On the DDD user group, there has been endless discussions about whether a service or repository can be directly called by classes that are part of the domain model. There is a g...
Read more ...Castle Dynamic Proxy
March 30, 2008This blog has been silent for a while, and for good reason. Besides experiencing symptoms of writer's block, I've also been playing around with a lot of new stuff (at least new...
Read more ...Improving Applications Design with a Rich Domain Model
September 2, 2007This is the title of an awesome talk that Chris Richardson gave at the Spring One 2007 conference in Antwerp. You can watch this session online. He gives a really nice introduct...
Read more ...Persistence Ignorance. Finally!
June 5, 2007Daniel Simmons, talks about persistence ignorance and how it will be incorporated in next version(s) of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. In a previous post, I already mentioned the...
Read more ....NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem-Design-Solution
April 27, 2007A while ago I blogged about Domain-Driven Design and how I like it so much. I mentioned that Tim McCarthy is writing a book that I'm pretty much looking forward to. Today he ann...
Read more ...Domain-Driven Design
March 7, 2007I'm so much into Domain-Driven Design! I already read Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns and I just finished reading Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Compl...
Read more ...Once Upon a Team
January 31, 2007Great follow-up by Jeremy D. Miller for The Anti Team. You can find this blog post here. You should give it a good read! Good teams challenge their approach every single day and...
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